Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haughty Dismissal. On technical grounds, De Gaulle objected to Britain's imports of cheap foodstuff from the Commonwealth nations, to its restrictions on the export of capital, and to the role of the pound as a reserve currency. Adopting the rules of the Common Market, particularly the agricultural rules, could ruin Britain economically, said De Gaulle. He further objected to tying the fluctuating pound to the now solid currencies of the Common Market members. He insisted that the Market partners would invariably be caught up in the pound's fluctuations and haughtily dismissed as jeux d'esprit...
...books, including 28 of poetry, 14 novels and the rest biographies, histories and comparatively undistinguished plays. The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Masefield thought of his laureate role as "a happy duty," though such eminences as Dame Edith Sitwell called his official paeans "dead as mutton." One penned to mark a trip abroad by Queen Elizabeth...
...Boston. For tradition's sake, however, some wholesalers will remain in the block-long granite warehouse known as the Quincy Market. The pushcart market is not moving. It will still be native cukes, Italian sausage, and provolone cheese. Hey, buddy, you want some nice bananas? Just ten cents a pound...
...tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before taking the middleweight title from Nigeria's Dick Tiger last year. On the strength of that, he was called by experts "the best boxer, pound for pound, in the world...
...scene after scene, the film accurately portrays the major sequences of the crime: the initial holdup at London airport to bankroll the big caper; the carefully planned mail call in which not a pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers...