Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic: his blaming, for instance, virtually all African violence on weapons imported from the West and his naive romanticizing of Gaddafi...
...November 14, 1948, 22-year-old PrincessElizabeth gave birth to a seven-pound, six-ounceboy. It took more than a month--until the day ofthe christening--for the child's parents toofficially announce his name: Charles PhilipArthur George...
WOODS HOLE, Mass.--Explorers visiting the Titanic 12,500 feet underwater in a tiny submarine named Alvin, fixed a 20-pound bronze plaque to the luxury liner's stern in memory of the 1,513 people who died after the ship struck an iceberg...
...artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...
...York City's most renowned sandwiches are based on the East European- Jewish delicatessen meats, corned beef and pastrami, and the high priest of the genre is Leo Steiner, who oversees the action at the Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Half a pound of meat or more is thinly sliced and deftly layered between slices of seeded rye bread. "Not just anyone can build a sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite...