Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia, which is 1-3-1 overall and 1-2 in the Ivy League, is considered strongest in the lower weights. The Lions have taken early leads in all their contests and have usually watched them evaporate in the heavier weight matches. Harvard, however, has usually been forced to overcome deficits incurred in the early matches by strong performances in the heavy weights...
...blancos, or white Bolivians, fluent in the Quechua Indian language. He is robust enough to dance all night with pretty girls, hearty enough to eat as many as four lunches a day of peasant rabbit stew and peppers accompanied by home made corn liquor. "I'm eleven pounds heavier than when I became President," Barrientos told TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia last week. "The only way the campesinos have of showing affection is to feed you. The only way to show appreciation is to eat the food...
...intellectual damage was even heavier. Angered at what it thought was vacillation by the university administration, the government ordered cancellation of entrance examinations for the incoming class, a move that will cripple the university for years to come. Most faculty members, in turn, are bitterly resentful of the government's insistence on hard-line tactics...
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is like a gin and tonic when you're expecting martinis: weaker, heavier, and maybe just a trifle too bitter to be really intoxicating. In adapting the play by the British Giles Cooper, Edward Albee has unfortunately burdened an amusing premise--that a group of suburban ladies should take up part-time prostitution--with all the weight of a major statement on the Decline of the American Empire. Everything in the Garden is basically an entertainingly sardonic drawing room comedy and Albee should have treated it as such...
...cost to the newspaper unions was even heavier. They have now been knocked completely out of the major dailies in the nation's third most populous city. Of the original 2,000 strikers, 1,600 work at odd jobs only two days a week and therefore qualify for strike benefits, which have cost the unions $10,000 a week (pressmen get a minimum of $25 a week, printers and mailers $103). The other 400 have taken full-time jobs, many at smaller newspapers, where pay is often lower than at the Herald-Examiner. Affected families display signs in their...