Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...
Last Thursday in Mexico City, where García Márquez resides in an elite suburb with his wife Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...
EVENTSTART TIME Veteran Singles 9:30 a.m. Men's Lightweight Eights 10:00 a.m. Youth Fours 10:20 a.m. Lightweight Singles 10:45 a.m. Youth Eights 11:10 a.m. Master Singles 11:30 a.m. Lightweight Fours 11:55 a.m. Club Singles 12:15 p.m. Men's Club Eights 12:45 p.m. Senior Master Singles 1:05 p.m. Women's Club and Lightweight Eights 1:30 p.m. Championship Doubles 1:50 p.m. Women's Championship Singles 2:10 p.m. Men's Championship Fours 2:35 p.m. Women's Championship Eights 2:55 p.m. Man's Championship Singles 3:15 p.m. Women...
...rumpled enough for a labor leader, never managing to appear as weary and wise as his baseball counterpart, Marvin Miller, or as old, Garvey, 42, has been taken as a lightweight villain around the sport for twelve years. "Garvey wants power," says Gene Klein, who owns the San Diego Chargers. "He's trying to put himself in the position of czar. He fell on his face before, and he'll fall on his face again." Knowing his is a face that does not exactly warm the cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over...
...this is not just an appealing character speaking his own epitaph; it is Henry Fonda's annunciation as an actor, that moment when he began to shed the first impression he had made in films like The Farmer Takes a Wife-that of a shy, likable but lightweight piece of homespun-and take on the raiment of authority. Looking back now, we see that there was no one else who could have played Tom Joad, no one else who could do what Fonda did-drain the sentiment and literariness out of that speech with his drawling directness...