Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then have tea or vodka. New feature films are run on TV within ten days of their appearing in Moscow movie houses. A surprising once-a-week feature is 30 minutes of U.S. newsreels, supplied to Soviet TV by Hearst's Telenews Films. They emphasize baby parades and weight-lifting contests...
Eagerly the Communists jumped into the fray. "The ignoble . . . theoretician of the policy of strength," Moscow Radio called Dulles. Peking Radio hurled a Chinese proverb at him: "A man who has had his face slapped into a bloated shape can only pretend he has gained weight." Headlined the U.S. Daily Worker: DULLES...
Just Point Me Straight. That is how Sam Langford got mixed up with boxing; he lived with it all the rest of his life. When he began to eat regularly, Sam put on weight. Soon he was strong enough to ask Woodman to get him a fight. By the next winter, he was good enough to whip Lightweight Champion Joe Gans (who kept the title because Sam had weighed in 8 oz. over the limit). By the time he was 18, "the Boston Tar Baby" was so good that he could beat almost anyone who would give him a bout...
...Phil Tarasovic of Yale, choice 101, Bill DeGraaf of Cornell, choice 324, and Royce Flippin of Princeton, pick 334. Bill Meigs commented that while he was not called, he had received a long questionnaire this fall but had shown no great enthusiasm for it. He believed that his light weight had contributed to his neglect by the pros...
...Late Nights. Watson's system was straightforward. While he was boss, his players would eat, sleep, talk and think hockey. Did some of the men feel smug because they had reported to camp at their best playing weight? They got the same treatment as the boys who had run to fat over the soft summer months; they were told to take off a few pounds just to keep them concentrating on their diet. Did they think they were sending those trunks of fancy clothes to the Times Square hotels where they had lived it up during other seasons? "Every...