Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncle" Ho has his hands full keeping things in balance. Rice rations were trimmed last month for the third time in a year, sugar grows increasingly short, meat is a luxury available only to the army and select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh continues to direct and aid the subversive war against South Viet Nam, for all his bluster he seems nervous about the possibility of stepped-up U.S. support of Saigon...
Henjyoji, the Crimson's regular 123-pound wrestler, sweated off four pounds on the day before the tournament to enter the 115-pound class. He won one match by an 8-0 decision before losing to Lehigh's John Dietz in the quarterfinals...
Three other Crimson wrestlers entered the tournament but called to place. Captain Ed Franquemont won two close decisions in the preliminaries of the 157-pound class, but was pinned by a Lehigh wrestler in the semifinals...
...Triple Subsidy for cotton, recently passed, calls for annual expenditures in excess of six hundred million dollars to accomplish these general purposes: support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
...sheriff's deputy is a pointedly jolly individual, known to joke and giggle while in the process of beating a prisoner with his five-pound strap or shoving him into the tiny black steam-heated solitary 'hotbox' cell. The only thing which seems to upset his routine of chuckling brutality is the presence of "Freedom Riders" (He manages to make it sound like an obscenity). He doesn't like...