Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
...rifts in Zionist Jewry, the rifts between Left and Right, moderation and extremism, Irgunist nationalism and Mapai Socialism, were rent wide open again. Fortnight ago, the trial judge found Greenwald guilty on one count-that of falsely accusing Kastner of sharing Nazi profits-and fined him one Israeli pound...
...dachshund talks like a comedy Dutchman; a borzoi spouts about Gorky with Russian flourishes. Whimsy is seldom more than a step ahead of whamsy: Jock and Trusty archly explain about sex to Lady just before Tramp does battle with three slavering mastiffs; a comic scene in the dog pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills a red-eyed rat, even though...
...Ford counter-offer brought no cheers from the union. Newsmen gathered outside heard Reuther's roar of protest. Then negotiators from both sides began to shout and pound the table. Suddenly, Reuther stormed out of the meeting with U.A.W.'s Ford Chief Ken Bannon at his side and lesser autoworkers trailing behind. No sooner had they cleared the passageway than Bugas burst through the door, snapped out: "I need a drink...
...introduced into one of the large twin tanks that sit two inches apart from each other. If the liquid oxygen should be contaminated, it would blow the plane, trailer, crew and spectators off the desert floor . . . Once in the tank, the liquid oxygen boiled off continuously at one pound a minute [causing] the weird shriek I heard early this morning . . . The gauges . . . were watched as cautiously as those in a surgery . . . Once the very nervous hydrogen peroxide was in the Skyrocket, a speck of dirt in the ... tank or in any of the myriad tubes and lines, and the little...