Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke up. As the happy guests filed out, each received from hostess and host a pound of American-brand coffee, a rationed and prized rarity in Denmark...
...fleet-foot of the six in recent games has been the 150-pound Hubbard, who was elected captain after the Brown game and went on to score a goal and two assists against the Green at Hanover and pull the three-goal "hat trick" against Belmont Hill...
Last week the Senate: ¶ Defied the butter lobby by repealing the 48-year-old federal tax of 10? a pound on colored oleomargarine, and ¼? a pound on uncolored. In the heat of debate, Wisconsin's butter-loving Alexander Wiley pleaded with his colleagues to remember that "the dairy cow is the foster mother of the race." The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages...
...former Harvard wrestling captains also won titles. Don Louria, now attending the Medical School, won one match on default and gained a 4 to 1 decision over Joe Cardinucel to defend his 191-pound championship. Pete Fuller, competing in the heavyweight division, also took one match on default, scored a 3 to 0 decision in the semi-finals and pinned Dick Towel of Providence in the second period of the finals...
Another freshman, Bud Adams, reach the finals of the 135-pound class before losing a referee's decision to Dick Shorp of Williams. Shorp had already eliminated Icko Iben, Harvard's third freshman entry, by a similar decision in the semifinals. Shorp's brother outpointed Dave Smith, the Crimson's only varsity entrant, 5 to 3, in the 145-pound class semifinals...