Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Rhodes, burdened with two lead-weight suitcases, just makes a train: "The station agent took their tickets gravely from between Harold's teeth." He has not created profound characters in the Rhodeses, but he has recorded a profound change of attitude. At book's beginning the heaviest luggage the Rhodeses carry is their own inferiority complex. They think they know what they want-to be French; at book's end they know and accept what they are-Americans. Treating Europe and America as parent and child, William Maxwell has unfolded the recurring cycle of maturity...
...type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works...
...firemen. Into the confusion raced fire department officials to begin a lengthy investigation. And all the while, from Grand Central Station and from stations to the north of the accident, came more trains, of the New York Central as well as the New Haven (they share some of the heaviest loaded trackage) until the cars were strung out like sausages and some 60,000 hapless commuters were involved...
...dusty Dhahran was built by the U.S. at the end of World War II, and improved since then to take the heaviest jets. It has been used by the U.S.A.F. mainly as a refueling and repair base. Under the agreement with the King, no U.S. combat aircraft could be stationed at Dhahran, and many other circumscriptions placed upon use of the base made its value questionable. Particularly nettling was Saudi Arab insistence that the Air Force must not station any Jewish airmen at Dhahran...
...throughout the week, the Dow-Jones tape fell well behind the flood of transactions ; on one occasion it was running 18 minutes late. In the confusion, the Dow-Jones News Service was reduced to asking brokers on the floor what was happening. The surprising answer: not much. Despite the heaviest volume (5,830,000 shares on one day) since the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, the averages did not budge more than a few points a day. At week's end, by gradual steps, the Dow-Jones industrials had edged up 15.97 points to close the week...