Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took him three tries, but Schoonover took advantage of a favoring wind and a new pole to make New England's first collegiate 16-foot jump. Using a Heavy. Test pole designed for a 165-pound vaulter (he weighs 152), Schoonover later cleared 16'41/2...
BRITAIN last week took the first step in a three-year conversion of its currency to the decimal system by introducing the first two new coins, the 5-new-pence piece and the 10-new-pence piece. After more than four centuries of a cumbersome system based on pounds, shillings and pence-12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound-the pound will equal 100 new pennies under the new system. Both new coins are equal in value to certain old ones: 5 new pence equals an old shilling and 10 new pence has the value...
...Finley and other Masters who favor such plans as paying tutors for specified jobs instead of giving them free room and board advance their plans tentatively. They are sensitive to the conflict between formal arrangements which will extract the House's pound of flesh from its senior and junior associates and the goal of such schemes--energizing informal relationships. The most fascinating question before Ford's new committee will be whether structural changes are adequate to cure the ills of the Houses...
...prisoners said that they had been subsisting for weeks on less than half a pound of rice a day; for the last three days before their capture, they had had no food whatsoever. Relieved to be free of the threat of instant death, the prisoners told of one regiment that had lost 75% of its 2,000 men to U.S. bombs and artillery...
...sure sign of a poor musical is that it consists of all work and no play. The dancers pound the floor boards like maniacal trip hammers. Sweat glazes the hero as his arms flail, his eyes pop, and he tries to kick his toes into the wings. To amplify the hollow book, microphones soup up the sound till it becomes the aural equivalent of the medieval ordeal by fire. George M!-the latest of the Broadway season's unbroken string of execrable musicals-qualifies on all counts...