Word: lb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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That night the town gave Grandma a 100-place birthday banquet. She easily blew out all 90 candles on her 79-lb. cake, told well-wishers that she felt "no older than I did at 70." Highlight of her day was a congratulatory wire from President Truman: "May the spirit of spring and eternal sunshine be yours always...
...pulled out of the dive, leveled for a moment, then climbed steeply to the left. When my eyes would focus again, I could see a tower of brown, dirty smoke rising from the center of the marshaling yards. May said we had dropped two of our three 1,000-lb. bombs...
...roared down toward the first tank, a Russian-made T-34, and Loranger laid a 500-lb. fragmentation bomb right behind her. The tank was engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also...
...small (about 1 lb.), bony member of the herring family, the menhaden is the U.S.'s No. 1 commercial fish. Unpalatable, menhaden are valuable for oil (soap and paint), stock and poultry feeds, fertilizers. Massachusetts Indians showed the Pilgrims how to use them: plant a menhaden in every hill of corn...
...Eileen Fenton, 22, a 112-lb. Yorkshire schoolteacher who, despite a strained shoulder, crossed in 15 hours 31 minutes (no record), crawled out of the water on her hands and knees to claim the ?1,000 purse for women...