Word: lighter
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Payne—an inch taller and about 25 lbs. lighter than Garcia—benches 380 lbs., but ran sprints for his high school track team. Their versatility almost seems unfair...
Social norms programs downplay the level of drinking on campus and, in the process, de-emphasize the negative consequences of heavy drinking while normalizing drinking in general. This probably explains why two measures of lighter drinking actually went up at social norms schools—indicating that some abstainers took up drinking and light drinkers increased their consumption...
Sonnenberg speculated that the prosecutors had requested the lighter sentence in the hope of winning a guilty verdict despite weak evidence...
Still, Trombly, who was of legal drinking age at the time, was clear on one key point about the evening, asserting repeatedly that he had consumed at most three beers before being arrested. In a lighter moment, Trombly also recalled with accuracy the rules of the drinking game he was playing with friends that night in response to lawyers’ questions about “Beirut” or “Beer Ping-Pong...
...series: black Los Angeles in the pre--civil rights 1950s, a sweltering fever dream of boardinghouses and all-black bars built on the frayed fringes of Raymond Chandlerville. Of course, Mosley is better known for Rawlins, but in many ways the Fearless Jones books make better reading: they're lighter on their feet, funnier and and quicker paced. At the beginning of Fear Itself, Fearless turns up on Paris' doorstep with a tale of woe involving a missing business partner, a mysterious woman, detectives on his trail, truckloads of contraband watermelons...well, there's no point trying to explain...