Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barrows' establishment, based in a brownstone, took 60% of each woman's earnings. The women had to shave their legs daily, and Barrows kept careful menstrual and weight charts on them. Those who got a bit flabby were suspended from work for two days for each extra pound. "She ran a pretty tight ship," concedes one police officer...
...find it difficult to understand, and I think many members of NACODS will find it difficult to understand, why the strike has been called," complained Thatcher. The NACODS action, together with the $1.35-per-bbl. drop in North Sea oil prices, caused near panic in British financial markets; the pound sank to $1.18, its lowest point in history against the dollar, and the London stock market recorded its sharpest one-day fall ever...
...economic impact last week in Britain was sharp and swift. The $1.35-per-bbl. price cut will diminish the government's $13 billion annual oil revenues by about 5%. On the day of the announcement, the British pound fell to a record low of $1.19. Shaken by the skidding currency and a possible worsening of the country's coal miners' strike, traders on the London Stock Exchange sent the Financial Times industrial share index to its steepest one-day loss in history...
...ring, the bouts are drawing to a close. The final match has dissolved into pandemonium as two sets of burly wrestlers pound one another with knee drops, punches and head bashes. The crowd becomes a mob, chanting in unison, waving American flags, demanding more. Suddenly a gong rings. As the hot, white lights above the ring switch off, fans stream outside into blinding sunshine. Inside, the wrestlers pack up and leave for the night matches in Austin...
...printer's General Manager, Edward Thompson, said the main cause of the delay, one of five contract jobs behind schedule, was the collapse of a machine used to lift the 1000 pound paper rolls...