Word: hefting
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...been dramatically destabilized by the arrival from some other school of a lad we shall call Benito, an exceptionally large (he'd been held back twice) and exceptionally nasty bully. Not only did Benito show no respect for the established pecking order of bullies and victims, but his heft also allowed him to impose his will on even the most violent of the pre-adolescent thugs who preceded him on the playground. Indeed, Benito showed no outward signs of human affect; if he'd been a dog he'd have been put down...
...dismiss any movie with an appearance by the heartthrob of two millennia, Johnny Depp? Still, we suspect that inclusion of the film testifies only to the Academy members' belief that each year attention must be paid to a Miramax film, of whatever quality or heft. It's like tithing...
...Lately Bertelsmann has been reorganizing its online assets. This month the company sold its Broadband Group to RTL for $12 million. RTL is already established on the Net; now it gets Bertelsmann's programming heft as well.?"It doesn't matter whether consumers access over mobile phones, their car, their home stereos, television or their personal computers," says Andreas Schmidt, Bertelsmann eCommerce chief. "We want to be able to offer our full catalog anytime anywhere...
...holds it securely on my back but allows me to take it off and prepare to fire in just a few seconds. I love the little metal flaps that snap in place over the sights to keep them clear of snow during the skiing intervals. I love the surprising heft of the thing; you pick it up and get the distinct sense that to ski very far with it on your back and then hold it steady enough to hit a four-inch circle at 50 meters is an activity most certainly undertaken by men - oh, and the untold platoons...
...meaningless partisan rancor. Yet he was also controversial: he became the first President-elect to lose the popular vote since 1888, partly due to skepticism about one half or the other of his "compassionate conservative" duality and partly due to doubts among some that he had enough experience or heft for the job. By his narrow and contested victory, he became a symbol of an electorate that was not (as some have contended) deeply ideologically divided but was instead rather conflicted and ambivalent as it split the difference between the two parties...