Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas carols that mentioned angels or the Christ Child. At a fair in Berlin's Soviet sector, swings, merry-go-rounds and roller coasters whirled in a raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups and plates to brighten her yuletide table, "another Communist Christmas...
...pages, the Nation, in effect, charged that the Saturday Review of Literature was suppressing free opinion. The suppression: the S.R.L.'s refusal to print a letter, signed by 84 poets, critics and others, criticizing two articles the S.R.L. had printed last June about Poet Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize (TIME, Aug. 29). The Nation itself printed the letter last week, alongside an article accusing the S.R.L. of everything from "a philistine attack on modern literature" to fascism. (The S.R.L. mildly observed that it had printed about 95 letters in the Bollingen controversy, considered it closed...
Many London merchants sold their gems not at the pegged pound rate, but for cheaper pounds in the free money market in Tangier, thereby losing Britain many dollars. But the dealers had little choice. If they had sold their gems at the official rate, Dutch and Belgian dealers would have undersold them...
...Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that he was a student at BC. "We have a 325-pound Santa in the window who everybody thinks is padded, but he isn't. He's a retired psychology professor...
Outstanding sophomore performances included: a first in the dash by Dick Weiskopf, a first in the 1000 by Dave Cairns; a close second in the 3/4 mile by Dave Gregory, who ordinarily runs a longer distance; a second in the hurdles by Charlie Durakis; a second in the 35-pound weight throw by Dick Rubin; and a third in the broad jump by Bill Geick...