Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candy counter was on. Hershey is now giving away an E.T. sticker with every bag of Reese's Pieces bought in 800 of the 1,100 theaters showing the movie. Five bags earn a free T shirt. Really sweet-toothed fans can redeem the labels from five half-pound sacks for a poster of favorite scenes from the film. That would be enough Reese's Pieces to entice a spaceshipload of E.T.s...
...tell whether the new, close relationship has paid off for Harvard. Too many factors enter into legislative decisions to isolate any one cause, but West says King's personal visit with half a dozen or so legislators helped defeat a bill that would have restricted the use of pound dogs for laboratory work--a provision that could have seriously curtailed Medical School research...
After helping both the Harvard Delivery News Service and the Hasty Pudding Club through financial muddles last year, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has apparently decided that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This spring the College has begun to provide free financial consulting to some student organizations and next year it will offer fiscal advice to all interested campus groups...
EVER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to foreign locales in search of a sensibility they have felt they could only capture abroad. Henry Adams and Ezra Pound. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all passed their moments in Europe against the backdrop of a culture that far overshadowed their...
...getting boring. In one particularly stunning warm-up sequence, for instance, he follows the team through all five pentathlon events: A dozen shotputters twirl into one perfect throw, and the high jump becomes a graceful cascade of falling torsos. Sweat drips heavily to a moist track; muscled, streamlined bodies pound the turf; and the camera zooms artfully to catch that last look of desperate concentration...