Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pound Angel. The Boston girl is enrolled in a zesty enterprise called Operation Kindness, sponsored by United Community Services, which has 4,300 youngsters on duty in 106 agencies and institutions in greater Boston. The unpaid helpers are busy at everything from running bingo games to skinning rabbits for medical researchers at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. At a Massachusetts state mental hospital, a 15-year-old "beautician" cheerily restyles the hairdos of psychotic women and says: "I just love Nantasket Beach in the summer, really I do. But−well, I like this better...
...alcoholics. A volunteer for the Young Life Campaign, Bob Long, 21, can proudly look back on such experiences as the 14 nighs he spent helping one addict to kick the habit. "My man here stayed with me," says Long's grateful protege. "He's my 205-pound guardian angel...
...evening of good drama, one could do worse than the Experimental Theatre production of Chekhov's The Boor and J.M. Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look. Barrie's play, though sentimental--even silly--achieves in its ending what it fails to do throughout. Its O. Henry twist gives a tearful 19th century play (by the creator of Peter Pan) a comic result and provides a vehicle for some very good acting...
...Britain's economy limped ahead at less than half the Common Market's rate of growth (annual average: 8%). Although at home Britons lived amid unprecedented-and inflationary-prosperity, a long series of financial crises culminated last summer in a massive, sustained flight from the pound that at its peak pumped up to $1.4 billion a month out of Britain. The government stanched the flow with heavy loans and anti-inflationary wage curbs (the "pay pause"), but the only permanent cure, economists decided, was to boost
...Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples: 5? v. 8? for a cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they have added a new verb to the Flemish language. It is superen, and it means to take a social hour in the supermarket, usually at night and with the family, piloting a pushcart among mountains of cans and valleys of prepacked meats...