Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weighing only 179, but filling in at the 191-pound slot, Freeman sent a Crimson squad that faced a tie--and possibly a heart-breaking loss--into a startling triumph...
...corpsman endured these hardships for little more than a week. Then back he went to overeating. He gained a pound a day for two months and retreated to the sanctuary of adiposity, where less was expected of him and he no longer felt inadequate. In other cases, said Dr. Kurland, drastic reducing has also led to depression rather than emotional relief. For many of the extremely obese, he suggested, their very weight is a source of emotional stability...
...propulsion system, the solar-powered ion engine, may well solve that problem in time for the flights of the 1970s. Using electricity generated by solar panels, these engines produce a stream of ions (charged atomic particles) that provide a minute amount of thrust - usually measured in hundredths of a pound...
...Eventually, of course, the pound as a British weight measure was replaced by the stone (14 Ibs.), but that is another story (TIME, June...
Joyce refused to explain his literary efforts publicly, but argued his ideas fiercely in correspondence with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and James Stephens. Probably no writer was ever more single-minded than Joyce or more convinced of his own genius, even before he published a line. Yet his life was a continuous obstacle course. His eyes failed him, he had facial neuralgia, arthritis of the back, sciatica. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth," he wrote, "and my soul of decayed ambitions." He was to die in 1941 from the hemorrhaging of a duodenal ulcer...