Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Thus, in the flat accents of Pound...
Article of War. Pound for pound, as the ships* grew and their equipment was installed, they became the most complex vehicles ever built for the sea. And by the time George Washington was ready for launching last December (just as the PERT charts predicted), the men who had been chosen to manage her fantastic hardware were as impressive as the ship herself. Commander James Butler Osborn, the crewcut, square-jawed skipper who looks like a football player, talks like a Marine drill sergeant and thinks like a well-trained engineer, seemed almost in love with his exquisite command. "This ship...
...London Presley-in-the-rough, depicted with total amorality. Adapted from his own play by British novelist and playwright Wolf Mankowitz, the film removes the glittering facade of show business for a behind the scenes view of the world in its dog-eat-dog reality. The almighty pound weaves in and out of the script, permeating the atmosphere and the characterizations...
...performance pantomimist in a Seattle jazz joint called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
...much of the world's sugar. Just before Ike announced a slash of 700,000 tons in the amount of sugar that the U.S. would buy from Cuba during the rest of 1960, world sugar prices dropped 3 to 8 points, i.e., hundredths of a cent a pound, in expectation of the cut -and in fear that Cuba would dump its surplus sugar on the world market. Instead, Cuba raised its minimum export price from $3 to $3.25 a hundred pounds in an effort to recover part of its losses on sugar sales. Thereupon, in heavy trading world sugar...