Word: heft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer heft could help him run South Viet Nam, Big Minh would have no problem. A Gulliver among his country's Lilliputians, he stands just under 6 ft. and weighs around 200 lbs., has a pronounced slouch caused from constantly having to stoop over to hear his countrymen. American military advisers nicknamed him Big to distinguish him from a smaller-statured fellow officer who is not related to him, Lieut. General Tran Van ("Little") Minh. Vietnamese good-naturedly call Minh...
While Communism's image was eroding, the West was growing stronger with the emergence of the Common Market as a great economic power. Together, the Common Market nations nearly match Russia in population (173 million to 222 million), steel production, electric power output and other measures of economic heft. With greater political unity-now temporarily impeded by France's Charles de Gaulle-the Common Market countries could be a military power comparable to Russia, or even superior. In concert, the Common Market, the U.S. and the British Commonwealth confront Russia with overwhelming economic might...
...last week, tradition-minded Englishmen were horrified to find that the 1963 model Britannia looks more like Miss Blackpool than the dumpy dowager who has traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street...
...between rural and urban voters about how the legislature should be apportioned. In West Virginia and Oregon, the voters turned down proposals that would have fortified the representation of the country areas against the steadily growing demands of the city dwellers. Maryland, Florida and California proposals to give more heft to the cities were defeated. Colorado struck a classic compromise, approved a plan that set a fixed size for the senate while guaranteeing that the house be reapportioned regularly on a strict population basis...
...worked the Journal into an uncomfortable and costly position. During the first few days of the strike, as the Journal dipped briefly to eight pages and forced editorial staffers into mechanical jobs. Milwaukee's other paper, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 196,961), put on so much heft, circulation and new advertising that it was compelled to give many a Journal striker work. For a while, the Journal even had to borrow page mats from the Sentinel (including one theater listing that ended with the embarrassing filler item: "Sentinel Want Ads Bring Results"). Journal circulation dropped...