Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...67th birthday the President of the U.S., two years out of a heart attack, 16 months out of major surgery for ileitis, is acting with the vigor of a man considerably younger. He is at about 172 Ibs., his football weight at West Point. His blood pressure is within normal limits. He continues to receive anticoagulants designed to prevent bloodclotting...
...Many Arabs are very remote from Communist ideas," he conceded. "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. This is coexistence." Whatever the consequences of his diplomatic weight-throwing, Khrushchev did not care, as long as he helped perpetuate fear, suspicion and chaos in the Middle East...
...waiting room of Calgary airport one 18° morning last week, a stocky, greying man staggered cheerfully under the weight of a pile of enormous, fleece-lined coats. To arriving friends the man said: "Here, you better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border...
...made-in-Russia satellite continued to circle the earth last week, apparently as steady in its orbit as the made-by-nature moon. Most details about it still came from Russia. Repeating the previously announced dimensions, diameter: 58cm. (22.8 in.); weight: 83.6kg. (184.3 Ibs.), Pravda described it as a sphere of aluminum alloys with a "polished and specially treated surtace" and four metal rods as antennae 2.4 to 2.9 meters (7.9 to 9.5 ft.) long. When the carrier rocket was fired, the rods were folded back against the sphere, but swung outward on swivels when the satellite reached...
...main weight in the scrum will come from Charlie Eaton, a member of last year's football and rugby teams, South African Derek Henderson and Englishman Jim Cooper, both at the Business School, and junior Bill Gill, all of whom are 200 plus...