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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruse, whose 1967 book "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" prompted considerable scholarly debate on the role of Afro-American artist and scholars in America, told the group at the Law Scholars in America, told the group at the Law School's Pound Hall that a climate of "openness" in post-World War I Harlem enabled a great intellectual like W.E.B. Du Bois to communicate his ideas to ordinary people...

Author: By Evan M. Supcoff, | Title: W.E.B. DuBois Society Discusses Role of Black Intellectuals | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...penny, in for a pound. If for some reason you feel compelled to make a movie about a sadomasochistic relationship, and you show an attractive young couple shopping for a riding crop, then somebody better get to use it before the end. As it happens, somebody did before they started editing this picture for an R rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 24, 1986 | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...most immediate impetus for the development of the jet is military: the space plane could carry Star Wars nuclear defense weapons into orbit. It is also designed to compete with NASA's space shuttle, lifting payloads into orbit for less than $100 a pound. That would be a bargain compared with the shuttle's fee of $2,000 a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around the World in 120 Minutes | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuttle Search Continues Using Radar Techniques | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...SPACE SHUTTLE Challenger blew up. Rockets, even $1.2 billion rockets, blow up. Being strapped to a several hundred thousand pound bomb hurtling through the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour will never be a particularly safe thing...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Lost Machismo | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

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