Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pity the British executive. He has had to keep his upper lip stiff against the problems of the pound, a prohibitive investment income tax, Common Market blackballs and Prime Minister Harold Wilson's accusation of "sheer damn laziness." Now comes a study showing that for all his pains, the British executive is paid at a level that is far and away the lowest in Europe...
Mortified Labor. As soon as the Mirror's 5,000,000 readers got a glimpse of this diatribe, the pound plummeted to its lowest post-devaluation level, and King was widely criticized by politicians and press alike. Among the most mortified were some of the members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years...
...years. The poems of William Butler Yeats and The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot first appeared in the Dial (1880-1929). For the single year that it survived, transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford in Paris, gave voice to such American expatriates of the 1920s as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. This Quarter, another European-based review, published the early writings of Aldous Huxley...
...Wolff, a 160-pound junior, was elected captain of the lightweight crew for next year. A Soc Rel major, he is married...
Bruce, LoPucki, a 5-11, 165-pound junior from Ann Arbor, Mich., has been elected Harvard's golf captain for the 1969 season by a vote of this year's lettermen...