Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farewell to Arms was ever written, talking like Lieut. Henry, Hemingway, of course, knows what he is doing, and it shows in the fact that he does not try to work the old conversational trick on those well-enough known to have a recognizable style of their own. Ezra Pound, for instance, who appears in the book as a tennis and boxing partner, gets to say very little. Neither James Joyce nor Wyndham Lewis gets to say anything...
...nominated for an equal pound...
Flesh v. Blood. Unable to pay on time, Antonio is haled before the Duke's court in Venice, where Shylock, refusing even 6,000 ducats, insists upon the letter of the bond, a pound of flesh to be sliced off Antonio's breast. The law's the law-the hard English common law with no mercy for a laggard debtor...
...words expressly are "a pound of flesh...
...best-selling author (Four Against Everest), playwright, pianist, amateur architect, and onetime Democratic congressional candidate from California. He is also a hero to his philosophy students at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Sayre, in fact, is just about everything except a scholar who can measure his monographs by the pound, and for that reason he was fighting for his job last week...