Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withered-and with it much of the commercial power of a nation that must live by trade or perish. This year has been unkind for Britain; the Labor Party's victory has only served to accentuate problems that the defeated Conservatives had struggled with for months. The pound has been put in peril, confidence in Britain's ability to adjust to the demands of the day has shrunk, and over the island that Blake called a "green and pleasant land" has grown an economic cloud that confuses, frightens and frequently infuriates its stalwart inhabitants...
Like a Fire. Last week, only a few weeks after the pound underwent one of its greatest tests of the century, Britain's cloud seemed to darken perceptibly. Talk swept London's City-and the Continent-about the further lack of trust in Labor, about the possibility of the pound's devaluation, and about a deterioration in the balance of trade. Though not all-perhaps not much-of the gossip was solidly based on fact, it burned as persistently and as contagiously as a fire in a peat...
Paul Padlack, a member of the Harvard freshman wrestling team, won the 155 pound division in the Lawrence Open Tournament at Lawrence, Mass., Saturday. Padlack won five matches on the way to his victory, including a pair of pins and decisions over two former New England champions, Norm Salem by a 1-0 score and John Sullivan...
...Harvard graduate students also scored in the AAU-sponsored event, open to any amateur wrestler. Al Steinberg of the Medical School took second place in the 165-pound class, and Rick Sullivan was third at 174 pounds...
Chiofaro teams up with 145-pound Jerry Delaney to form an effective Mutt and Jeff combine for the second defense. Demment drops back to fill in at times...