Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy has obviously learned to live with the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and his political misfortunes. In recent days, he has displayed a marked resilience. He has lost 20 lbs.-leading to a Capitol Hill sick joke: "There must be an easier way to lose weight." He is clear-eyed, the puffy jowls are gone, his hair is razor-cut in the back with the sideburns shorter. His handshake is firm once more...
...Bundestag, and their share of the total vote dropped from 9.5% in 1965 to a mere 5.8% ?just above the 5% required for representation in the Bundestag. After three days of intense negotiations, the Free Democrats, who are led by Walter Scheel, threw their slight but decisive weight behind Brandt. At week's end the onetime outcast of West German politics informed President Gustav Heinemann that he was prepared to form a government in coalition with the Free Democrats and rule the Federal Republic...
...Cambridge Civic Association, a group of Cambridge citizens, added their weight to the rent control drive last week when they passed a resolution endorsing "the concept of rent control for Cambridge...
...October 15 Moratorium offers Faculty and students a chance to assess the weight of this feeling, to counter it, and to devise strategies that will not provoke it further-provoke it in other words to the point where renewed bombing of the North and unconditional surrender might become politically attractvie. The idea of the Moratorium admirably recognizes that there are no short-cuts to the work of organizing and education in areas beyond our own enclaves. No faculty vote should be taken on the Resolution at least until we can assimilate the experience of the Moratorium...
...explore oppressive physical realities. His basic themes reach their fullest elaboration in his epic films To Parsifal and Mass, and each succeeding work derives its direction and energy from these two productions. In Quixote. the last of his epics, a barbaric technology proves too overpowering, and the sheer visual weight of double and triple superimpositions overwhelms even the filmmaker...