Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller is ever experimenting in method--while Williams' plays run in the same rut. (I seem to be using Williams as a whipping boy, but the comparison is inevitable since they are at the moment the two most respected and talked-about of our native playwrights.) Conscious of the weight of classical Greek drama behind him, Miller here has purposely moved closer to it and away from realism. He employs a lawyer, Alfieri, in a double role: as a temperately counseling participant in the action; and as an outside narrator or commentator (like the Greek chorus), set off effectively...
...after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into...
Local Reaction. The shutdown choked off the vast weight that the steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...turning on our landing lights. Over." "Roger," said Plata, "we have you in sight now, 2124. We have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases (although many a pilot would prefer...
Italian businessmen are notoriously allergic to taxation in any form. Nevertheless there was weight to their argument that the "law for tax equality," which was passed by a majority of Communist and Socialist votes, will in fact perpetuate inequality. Many big investors intend to keep right on dodging taxes by transferring their holdings to dummy Swiss corporations (which can be set up for only $300 a year in legal fees). Holders of government bonds, savings accounts, etc. totaling $2 billion (v. only $190 million worth of privately owned stock) will still be allowed to play ring-around-a-rosy with...