Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only $3 billion. Could not Britain become a financial burden on its prospective Common Market partners if its creditors suddenly called in all their debts? Not a chance replied Wilson, explaining that Britain's huge foreign investments were more than ample to ward off a run on the pound. (He could also have mentioned -but probably diplomatically did not- that Britain's pound has been shored up at times by massive aid from...
When it comes to civic action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...Crimson weightmen swept the shot put and the 35 pound weight for a quick 18 points. Sophomore Dick Benka threw 53' 3/4" for first place in the shot, while Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal placed second and third, both with throws of 52' 1 1/2". In the 35 pound weight, Ron Wilson hurled to the 56' 1/2" mark with Charlie Ajootian finishing second and Gene Mazel third...
...offensive against the Mekong Delta, the Reds' last safe haven in South Viet Nam. Perhaps most disturbing of all to the enemy was the U.S. air war. During the week, the North Vietnamese lost nine supersonic MIG-21s, their most advanced fighter aircraft, as U.S. bombers continued to pound military targets. Seemingly desperate for relief from the devastating air offensive, Hanoi began emitting some subtle static aimed at convincing Washington that if only the U.S. would call off its planes, peace talks might-eventually-get under...
...section "Voices of Revolution" is especially interesting because it brings the reader into the atmosphere of a political rally. Leaders from Venezuela, Mozambique, and Peru pound out the inexorable logic of their position, call for unity of classes, and preach nationalism. The spout neo-Marxian polemics--"We have nothing to lose but the chains that destroy our dignity;" and the revolutionary vocabulary of diatribe--"imperialism," "industrial reserve army," and "pauperization...