Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of House stereotypes can also be argued both ways. While there is considerable doubt of any substantive basis for them, the fact remain many freshmen at least take them into consideration when choosing a House, and in some cases weigh them quite heavily. Moreover, as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks have pointed out in a forty-page study of the Houses, even if no stereotypes existed, freshmen would probably create them in order to justify a choice for which they have no other justification. Stereotypes that lack meaning and reality can't hurt anyone, claim the defenders...
...Mexico, spread across the West in the mid-1800s. At first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string...
...much do you weigh, Jim?" asked a reporter. "Oh, about 193." "Di Salle's got you beat-he weighs 208." "Yes." replied the 6-ft. Rhodes, rubbing his stomach, "but I'm in better shape...
...tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber and spilled into the other. The one still accessible is built with astonishing precision out of marble blocks fitted together in razor-blade joins. Its huge ceiling blocks weigh several tons
...exception was in 1934-when a Democratic President had a Great Depression working for him, not unfulfilled promises to cure a mild recession working against him. In 1962 there is every likelihood that state and local issues-ranging from personalities to bond issues for new sewer districts-will weigh heavily in the election results. But there is one issue that should be local everywhere: how to get the U.S. moving again, as swiftly as all Americans would like...