Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of firepower joined the growing weight of U.S. arms in Viet Nam. Into the shoaling waters of South Viet Nam's east coast swept the slim destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, searching out Viet Cong concentrations with their hard-hitting 5-in. guns. In half a dozen operations, naval artillery socked more than 370 rounds onto targets as deep as four miles inland. The big rifles proved effective: sharpshooting by the U.S.S. Somers broke the back of a Communist assault on a district headquarters in Binh Thuan province, killing twelve and wounding...
...Running isn't good or bad for the skin," concedes Dermatologist Abrahams, but 40 to 50 miles of running every week keeps his weight below 160. The father of twelve children, Internist Sheehan takes a more positive view. "Distance running is good for the heart," says the lean Sheehan, who in 1940 finished second in the I.C.4-A mile at Madison Square Garden, still manages to clock 30 miles a week. "There is some evidence that it produces an anticoagulant, keeps the blood vessels clean, lowers the blood pressure and slows the pulse." Is that why he runs the long...
...Negro houseboy who, Simon insists, has a nose for news. Eternally restless, he constantly tweaks his ears, rubs his eyes, pulls at his neck, scratches his ankle, and chews constantly on a phenomenal number of Italian caramels that somehow do not seem to increase his steady weight of 180 Ibs. And, of course, he frets, worries and broods all the while...
...succeeds weight thrower Art Croasdale as captain...
...Teacher, Quick. In the U.S., at least, inertia has been fostered by a crushing weight of institutional responsibility. In Loyola's time, the Jesuits were a mobile spiritual commando of shock troops, kept free of routine and organization to serve God and the Pope as need arose. Today, the American provinces are hard put to staff an awesome ecclesiastical machine that supports in the U.S. alone, 28 colleges and universities, 51 high schools, 24 national publications, and ten seminaries. As a result, the scholarly careers of promising men are sometimes delayed or curtailed by immediate institutional needs. "The percentage...