Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Weissmuller, whose waist measurement outgrew his Tarzan role, was forced to keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...alone present a complete portrait of Churchill himself. To Churchill the diplomat, the high-spirited artist of war, the politician who understood himself and thus understood the British people, must be added Churchill the tireless observer of small things, the accountant who knows that pennies make the pound...
...pound hammer--Won by Forsyth (H); 2, Reed (H); 3, Thorndike (H). Distance...
...beer by a penny a pint. But food prices, he said, could be held down only by giving higher government subsidies to food-growers and dealers-and this he was in no position to do. Instead, he announced that meat prices would have to go up 7? a pound, cheese 7?, butter 3?, margarine 2?. Matches and telephone calls would also cost more...
...hour from visiting each other in their bedrooms, and it is done." The court was told by the prosecutor that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl a contraceptive, though she recalled that Headmaster Copping had bawled...