Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock every morning last week, the queues began to build up in front of Buenos Aires' two sparkling new Minimax supermarkets. When the glass doors opened at 7:30, hundreds of bargain hunters rushed in to buy Argentine beef for 15? a pound (most B.A. groceries sell it for 30?) and other foods at 25% to 35% less than standard Argentine prices. Though the second store has been open only three weeks, the success of the two Minimaxes is so certain that their backers-the Rockefeller brothers, plus a group of Argentine financiers-are already building three more...
Stravinsky built Noah's Ark with flutes, French horns, and thumping timpani that seemed to pound every wooden board in place. He created the flood with wavy strings and the liquid tone of horns and string basses. His storm was disconcerting dissonance...
...distant for you to hear." coaxes the manufacturer, the Futura Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis. "Aim it at a group of friends a block away, and hear every word. " Also marketed by the friendly Futura people: the Big Voice ($12), a portable public-address system weighing only a pound, and the Big Blast ($10), a portable bullhorn "ideal for playground, spectator sports, boating, or just plain everyday...
Inside there was air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting and dishwashers, and the price was right: $12,950 to $16,950. The builder of Woodland West did little more than dig foundations and pound nails. In everything else, from making elevation surveys to placing newspaper advertisements, the development is the work of L. C. Major & Associates of Downey. Calif., pioneers in the art of tractitioning...
After publication of her first novel, Bryher was quickly accepted in the best literary circles. She was a friend and traveling companion of Poetess Hilda Doolittle; Ezra Pound tried vaguely to seduce her; in Paris she dined with Gide and Joyce and Gertrude Stein...