Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here is a candy bar I just purchased within the last five min utes. This is the only peanut bar you can buy in the cloakroom. This peanut bar weighs, according to its wrapper, one and one-eighth ounces. You can make more than 14 bars out of one pound of peanuts, if you made them all out of peanuts." Poage slowly unwrapped the bar, continued darkly: "As a matter of fact, it has not got very many peanuts in it. Look inside." He broke the bar in half, held the pieces aloft, and shouted in outraged tones...
Pennsylvania's varsity 150-pound crew followed the example of their powerful big brothers by annexing the Eastern title in their division at the EARC lightweight championships on the Charles Saturday...
...other Pitman models on the same floor show University and town buildings around what is now Harvard Square as they were in 1667 and 1775. Nearly 900 hand-carved buildings in the 1936 miniature stand on a 100 pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses...
...never read such a bunch of rubbish. If the Government didn't take its pound of flesh out of every paycheck, there would be a hell of a lot of people they would have to beat it out of on April...
...ammunition. When he had punched a hole in the line, Red army tanks with infantry riding on their backs would drive through, sweep around and encircle the enemy flanks. Sometimes Zhukov trapped as many as ten German divisions this way. He would then stand off and pound them to pieces with his artillery. Writes German General Guderian: "Whenever the German army fell into a dangerous, disorganized or shilly-shally state, we always looked for the skillful hand of . . . Zhu-kov." Eisenhower once asked Zhukov how his men negotiated minefields. Zhukov's answer chilled Ike: "When we come...