Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team from Brandeis, 150-139, in the half-hour batter battle. Beer's personal achievement--119 pancakes consumed or inserted entirely into his mouth--set a Harvard record, but it was far short of the 248 consumed last year by John Henry, a 6 ft., 5 in, 240-pound, Boston University football tackle...
When the Board of Trade announced on February 12 that Britain's trade deficit widened again in January, despite the 15% surcharge, the news was received with a kind of quiet desperation. The pound weakened. Government officials rushed to reassure the country. Economic experts predicted the government's moment of truth would arrive by the end of the summer. The currency crisis is only one symptom of a more serious malady. It reflects the restrictive practices of British labour and the resistance of British businessmen to innovation; it dramatizes the backwardness of British industry...
...pricing British goods out to foreign markets. As inflation at home makes British products less competitive abroad, receipts from exports keep falling behind spending on imports. Gold moves from the vaults of London to the capitals of Europe. And as those vaults are drained, world confidence in the pound declines. The exchange rate drops. And the crisis continues...
...matter how effectively the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund join to prevent the pound's short-term collapse, the long-term problem of rising prices can be solved only by the British themselves. Insulated by high tariffs, British businessmen have failed to modernize their industrial plant. Clinging to small scale industry, they have resisted mechanization. Their disdain for impersonal management techniques has stifled efficiency. And their scorn for money-grubbing, aggressive salesmanship has inhibited their ability to expand new markets...
...Bruins forfeited both the 147-pound and 177-pound classes to Harvard, losing five points each time. Brown also forfeited three matches to Princeton in February. An extremely small squad has made each injured Brown wrestler literally irreplaceable...