Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth was approximately as radioactive as its weight in wrist watches...
...somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than a careful safety course. The lines have also handled safety drills and demonstrations in the cabin casually for fear...
...whom belong to the Association for Asian Studies. Happy to have so many experts agreeing with its own position, the Times applauded in an editorial: "The statement on China by 198 Asian scholars-opposed by only 19 other members of the Association for Asian Studies-shows where the weight of informed American opinion lies...
...Frank O'Connor, 56, New York's city council president, seemed the odds-on favorite after an impressive victory in the city election last November, but has since lost ground by petty partisan bickering with Republican Mayor John Lindsay, and, in any event, carries little weight outside New York City...
...only he had stopped right there. Who else, after all, has ever scored 100 points in a single night or averaged 39.5 points per game throughout a seven-year pro career? Wilt never stops there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest lover," he says. It took his fellow pros a while to realize that they could vote for one item on Wilt's list without buying all of them. Last week they elected...