Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how elephantine the Cross forward wall is can be estimated from the seven-pound per man weight edge it will enjoy over its opposition...
They will be bumping shoulders with 230-pound Tom Donnalley and 254-pound Tony Palmer, says the program...
...Pound of Cure. In Baltimore, the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous moved into new offices in the Bromo-Seltzer building...
Like a sailor come home, Pound tells the folks about the marvels he knows. He delves into the intrigues of Renaissance Italy and renders Greek myths in his own way; gives a long narrative of Chinese history and satirizes the visit to Europe of a lady from Kansas; comments on philosophical problems and wanders off into topical harangues. He loves to indulge in the old Bohemian game of scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear...
Even in these passages, the poet in Pound often goes hand-in-hand with the crank...