Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, residents of Vulcan (pop. 200), W. Va., pleaded with state and federal officials for money to rebuild a 70-year-old bridge across the Big Sandy River that had collapsed from old age. Finally, to shame the bureaucrats into action, John Robinette, honorary mayor of the isolated mountain town, melodramatically applied to the Soviet Union for foreign...
...manner of reducing schemes, from daily jogging to lengthy sojourns at high-priced fat farms. To what effect? Very little, says the National Center for Health Statistics, an offshoot of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In fact, the center reports, men and women in most age and height groups actually weigh more than they did 15 years...
...based its findings on a comparison between a survey taken in 1960-62 and a second study, covering 13,671 individuals selected at random as representative of the entire U.S. population, conducted in 1971-74. The reported weight gains varied widely, up to 14 Ibs., depending on the sex, age and height of the subjects (see chart). But overall, they show that nearly the whole population is growing heavier. In the early 1960s, the average American woman...
Among men from ages 35 to 44 who are 6 ft. tall, for instance, the average weight increase has been 10 lbs. (to 194 lbs.). Among women in the same age group who are 5 ft. 8 in. tall, the weight gain has been a hefty 13 lbs. (to 167 Ibs.); for 5-ft. 6-in. women in this same group the increase has been...
Such reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful boy, leaving her with a baby daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded...