Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
...markets and confidence around the world. The price of gold on the London exchange soared to $35.20 an ounce, the highest since the Cuban missile crisis. As gold rose, the value of paper money decreased. The dollar declined on markets in Germany and Switzerland, and Britain's beleaguered pound fell fractionally. This week the Bank of France was expected to move to ease tension on the gold markets-but that would not alter the long-term French determination to put pressure...
...timing of De Gaulle's thrust that upset global money markets and affronted the U.S. Coming just when rumors abounded that Britain might have to devalue the pound because its reserves are so low-and that the U.S. would then inevitably have to devalue the dollar to remain competitive on world markets-the French action seemed to be an attempt to bother both currencies. De Gaulle clearly felt that by throwing his weight into world money markets, he could increase the franc's value against dollars and sterling, dramatize the shortcomings of the international monetary system, which France...
...arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men might aspire... Die Gedanken sind frei." Later in the book Dan Wakefield notes, "It has been reported that a pound of LSD dropped into a city's water supply could produce a psychosis of the population that would last long enough for enemy troops to take over...
...back in action after a period of illness, decisioned Cornell's Doug Blise 10-3 and Ed Franquemont, going at 157 for the Crimson, smoothly defeated John Reed 6-1. But after Cornell's Geoff Stephens pinned Dave Greuel at 2:48 of the second period of their 167-pound match, and DeWitt Burlingame followed with a 6-3 victory over Chris Wickens at 177 pounds, the responsibility of overcoming a 16-8 Cornell lead fell to Brooks and Chace...