Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company used to operate in Guatemala and elsewhere with all the freewheeling methods that characterized the era of "dollar diplomacy." Since then, however, Unifruit has changed with the times, becoming a model big employer in the Caribbean. Paradoxically, Unifruit's reforms have only brought it under heavier attack by government and labor in Guatemala, especially since the leftist revolution...
...Rebel Aneurin Bevan piled up a heavier than usual majority in the Welsh constituency of Ebbw Vale. The two Ministers who resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf...
Correlating physical types with fatal diseases, the scientists find that 21 percent of deaths were due to blood-clotting causing heart failure. Stocky men with under-par muscularity were the usual victims of coronary thrombosis and cancer. Tuberculosis claimed many tall, muscular men of light build while passing up heavier individuals of greater fleshiness...
...When the silverware went with the President on state visits to Belgium and Britain, Eudeline journeyed with it; when World War II broke out and the silver was taken for safety to a country chateau, Eudeline went along to guard it. During the German occupation, Hermann Goring laid even heavier burdens on Polisher Eudeline by ordering 100 more place settings, but the steady rhythm of Eudeline's buffing arm never faltered. When he retired recently, not one man, but two, took his place...
With experienced and swift Charlie Curtis relegated largely to defensive duties. Tom (no relation) Collins is Dartmouth's leading left half. Only five pounds heavier than his namesake, he is an entirely different type of runner--a heavy-duty ball carrier who serves on quick-openers through the line. Behind him is a slightly slower man named Russ Small...