Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporters who watched while Luis Jose Monge [June 9] choked to death in the Colorado gas chamber, I take issue with your statement that "five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious...
...Money markets were active. Parisians, as they usually do in times of crisis, lined up to buy French gold Napoleons. The value of the pound sterling fell because of the expectation that Britain, deprived of Middle East oil, would have to pay some of its $1.7 billion annual oil bill in the dollar-area markets of South America...
...world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered as the price of the red metal outside the U.S. tumbled from nearly $1 a pound in early 1966 to around 45? recently...
Some years ago, Ezra Pound advised young writers to occupy themselves with politics, because the imagery of commitment was the strongest the twentieth century could provide. Reality, to Pound, was no point of debate. "Any tendency to abstract general statement," he wrote, "is a greased slide." Assuredly, Pound's position is not a prediction that the world's artists will preach up a revolution, however much that thought may have been on his mind. He merely skewers the certain fact that a revolution, whether real or only plotted, can discipline art, and that the rhetoric of revolt can strengthen writing...
...Vista. Then, after a short walk to the changing room on the third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious. Sixteen minutes later he was pronounced dead...