Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described "block after block of utter desolation" in residential districts. U.S. planes, concluded Salisbury, "are dropping an enormous weight of explosives on purely civilian targets"-and, in Hanoi's view, they are doing it "deliberately...
...world in the 18-to-25 age group. In Iran, for example, fully 95% of the suicides are in the Now Generation; in the U.S. nearly one in ten. More often, the flip-out is psychedelic. Acid-heads and pot smokers feel that they can ease the weight of the Sisyphean stone by drug use. "LSD is like Ban deodorant," says a University of Michigan acidhead. "Ban takes the worry out of being close; LSD takes the worry out of being." The National Student Association's Chuck Hollander, 27, who has written extensively on the subject, estimates that...
...Navy hospital corpsman, aged 20, who wanted to re-enlist after two years of duty. To meet the Navy's physical requirements, he had to drop 50 lbs., and while on a rigorous diet in the metabolic ward of the Naval Hospital in Oakland he lost weight fast. No sooner was he back on duty than he discovered that his newfound slimness was a surprising disadvantage. He was expected to do chores from which he had formerly been excused. His wife expected him to be more active both generally and sexually...
...months and retreated to the sanctuary of adiposity, where less was expected of him and he no longer felt inadequate. In other cases, said Dr. Kurland, drastic reducing has also led to depression rather than emotional relief. For many of the extremely obese, he suggested, their very weight is a source of emotional stability...
...content, this first commercial publication of My Secret Life makes Fanny Hill look like Mary Poppins. It rivals Casanova's memoirs in sheer size (2,359 pages) and weight (61 lbs.); and in the number of women dealt with (1,250 by the author's own count, 2,500 by another scholar's system), it surpasses all contenders. It is not only the longest autobiography of any kind, it is also the longest sexual memoir ever written. It smacks of pure fantasy, but it is apparently authentic - at least, so says Gerhson Legman in his 43-page...