Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Witnesses provided good descriptions of four of the twelve terrorists. One was a youthful man with bushy, modish hair and a mustache; two others, clean-shaven, were described as older and heavier. The fourth was a slim young woman with long brown hair and glasses...
...used to ship dangerous substances. Only about 20 now meet the new standards. Moreover, as an economy measure, railroads have increased the length of their freight trains. Declared Kay Bailey, acting head of the National Transportation Safety Board: "The tracks often cannot bear the load of bigger trains and heavier cars...
Hard as he is on unpleasant people, Adams lays a heavier hand on things and ideas he does not like. The center that Rowf and Snitter escape from is called Animal Research, Surgical and Experimental (A.R.S.E.). Its acronym hits the level on which every endeavor that does not involve padding about on four feet is treated. The behavior of politicians, scientists and journalists invariably rouses Adams into the kind of jocular sneering that is more fun to write than to read...
...hero, known simply as "first Man," is modeled after the Soviet dissidents who came to France in the early seventies. Wandering through a nameless country (perhaps the U.S.), he is jostled by the authorities (the leftists), losing one suitcase to them while his other two grow heavier and heavier (his conscience?). It is Ionesco's most metaphysical and optimistic play, for like the new philosophers it claims that from the ashes of politics will rise a phoenix of art.CrimsonMark Lennihan...
...sure. Despite their backwardness and bureaucratic bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses in droves...