Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Philippines, vs. 2,433 in Hawaii -- but the strategic losses were higher. The raids on Clark and Iba fields outside Manila wrecked 18 out of MacArthur's fledgling force of 35 B-17 bombers, 56 of his 72 P-40 fighters and 25 other planes. In returning later to pound the airfields again, the Japanese also smashed the Cavite naval base. And while Pearl Harbor was a hit- and-run raid, the Japanese would seize and hold the Philippines for the next three years...
...monitors, a tenuous cease-fire held from one hour to the next. In Vukovar the fighting also subsided, largely because the Serbs seemed to have subdued the Croatian forces, despite reports that an organized force of holdouts had taken refuge in the sewer system. Although the army continued to pound Vukovar with rockets and artillery, a Western diplomat said, "They're not doing much now but making the rubble bounce...
...says he is particularly proud of the 40-pound salmon he caught with a three-ounce...
...actor and the killer, and it's hard to tell which one needs psychiatric help more. Producer-director David Jablin crams a feature film's worth of twists into a breathless 37 minutes and skewers everything from TV's true-crime shows to America's celebrity roller coaster. Pound for pound, it may be the shrewdest satire of television since Network...
Antonio secures a bond for 3000 ducats from the Jew Shylock, his nemesis, (David Javerbaum), and promises as collateral a pound of his own flesh if he should forfeit the bond. When Antonio's ships sink at sea, Antonio must forfeit the bond and lose his pound of flesh by Shylock's hand...