Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defending the Pound. In office, Wilson has proved to be a man of the middle-and that is where the votes are in today's affluent Britain. To be sure, Wilson's government has raised pensions, liberalized the national health-insurance scheme, and instituted long-range national economic planning. But the steel industry has not been nationalized. He has kicked the unions far harder than any Conservative would have dared, castigating Britain's raise-happy workers for "sheer damn laziness." And he has dared to defend the pound with the simple old-fashioned remedy of deflating demand...
...every expectation the cost-of-living index will head higher again. In any event, last week's flattened figure is of small solace to the U.S. housewife, who is already complaining about having to pay 59? for a bunch of broccoli in Boston or $1.09 for a pound of bacon in Atlanta...
...Novelist Valery Tarsis go to England [Feb. 18]: "The official rationale was that since Tarsis' most recent underground novel, Ward 7, concerns his experience as a political prisoner in an insane asylum, he is a certified lunatic, hence not legally liable for his ravings." America, remember Ezra Pound...
Britain buzzed with speculation last week over whether Prime Minister Har old Wilson would call a general election in the next few weeks. He had every reason to do so. The pound is strong, wages are up, and unemployment is at a near-record low. The fortunes of the Tory opposition are down, with polls showing Labor moving farther ahead in popularity. What better time to seek a margin in Commons more comfortable than the present three-seat majority? But to all inquirers, the stolid little Yorkshireman had one answer: "I shall make a statement in the right...
...pound senior, named to the all-Eastern Team of the Week last week, also holds the Harvard record for most points in a single game with...