Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor...
...Lagos, Gowon promised to escalate his response. "From now on," he said, "the forces of the federal military government will reply with heavier blows to every act committed by the rebels and will pursue them in an all-out drive until the rebellion is completely stamped out." So far, Gowon's 15,000 troops-double those of Ojukwu-have barely won a foothold in Biafra. But Ojukwu's forces are spread thin, and the more territory they invade the more vulnerable their lives will become. It is still anybody...
...Deseret News. "Never have their natural resources been so extravagantly used, never has the national deficit been so great except in times of all-out war, never have taxes been higher, inflation more out of hand; never has youth faced a more uncertain future, never have there been heavier encroachments on personal liberty by an all-powerful federal government, never has crime been more ugly and broad, never the air more polluted, food, clothing more expensive-ad infinitum...
...decreasing volume. REA now carries only 2% of its traditional specialty, small shipment haulage, while faster, more efficient truckers have cornered virtually all the market. What's more, it is now meeting competition from the Post Office Department's Parcel Post, once forbidden to carry parcels heavier than 20 Ibs., but under new regulations moving into heavier goods...
...Patriots practice sessions are no heavier than early fall practice at colleges. The players run through exercises, drills, and patterns twice a day for an hour and a half each time. In the evening, the players do their schoolwork with the coaches...