Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced to outdo each...
...yearning for ocean voyages when ships were without radio (On Being Out of Date), for the days when "old whisky aboard was half a crown a bottle, and the best tobacco I have ever smoked-you cannot get it now, even in Piccadilly-was three shillings a pound. Somehow we managed. We pulled through. No BBC helped us." But what really stirs his querulous ire is the evidence he sees around him that modern man has let the machine muffle the "daring" of his soul, has sheepishly turned much of his liberty over to government bureaucrats...
...TIME, June 15) are in the offing. A new process, developed by United International Research, Inc. to produce titanium sponge directly from titanium dioxide and bypass expensive steps in present methods, may cut the cost of sponge (from which plates, sheets, etc., are made) from $5 to $1.50 a pound...
...these things added weight: one extra pound of gadgetry can add ten pounds to the plane because of needed structural changes, extra fuel capacity, etc. They also added to the cost: F-86s cost $500,000 apiece, v. $100,000 for World War II's Mustangs. But with all due credit to the superb pilots, Dutch Kindelberger is convinced that the gadgets have more than paid off in Korea. Says he: "The best jockey in the world can't win on a lousy horse...
...Sample of the author's instructions, for preparing a 36-inch pike: Sew into the pike's belly a pound of sweet butter mixed with thyme, sweet marjoram, winter-savory, the pike's liver, pickled oysters and two or three whole anchovies, and roast over a spit, basting often with claret, anchovies and butter. When roasted to a turn, squeeze the juice of three or four oranges into the sauce in the belly...