Word: hefted
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...huge hockey puck of glass ground into a concave, light-focusing curve on one face and coated with reflective metal. To keep from sagging under its own weight and distorting the curve, the mirror had to be a bulky 26 in. thick, and it weighed 20 tons. That enormous heft called for an even more massive support structure to hold the whole thing up while at the same time adjusting constantly to counteract the effect of Earth's rotation. Scaling the design up any further would have been absurdly expensive...
...guard" (read Cheney) picks like George Mitchell or even Bob Graham, more moderate than ideological (read Cheney) picks like Kerry or Gephardt, and yet doesn't leave Gore too alone at the top with a neophyte like Bayh or recent contender Edwards.Dick Cheney doesn't seriously out-heft Lieberman. Qualifications-wise, that is. He exudes ethics more than charisma, and isn't an oratorical superstar. He's from the Northeast, one of the few regions Gore can be confident of winning. He has no particular constituency, no ideological sweet spot; just news-watchers who vaguely admire him. But barring...
...booklovers alike predicted that the Main would set a new standard for libraries--a spiffy, sparkling alternative to old caverns like Widener. But as the glow of newness fades, the Main is looking more and more like a white elephant, a politically correct community center with precious little academic heft...
...geographical balance, though Missouri is one of only two states that have voted for the winner in every presidential race since 1960. What Bush needs is temperamental balance, someone who can add weight to a ticket that is going to be sharply scrutinized by voters for sobriety and intellectual heft...
Anyone who has ever traveled to Britain knows the re-assuring jangle of a 1[pound] coin. It's weighty stuff, nearly twice the heft of an American quarter, and six times as valuable. It's got a gilt-colored exterior and a serene-looking Queen Elizabeth II on the face. It's a thick coin, about three stacked quarters high, and the British Royal Mint has dressed up the edge with fancy-looking Latin inscriptions ("Spend me wisely," they seem to say). The pound feels like real money. It feels great...