Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present and future generations, Thy will be done at Port-au-Prince and in the provinces. Give us this day our new Haiti and never forgive the trespasses of the enemies of the Fatherland, who spit every day on our Country. Let them succumb to temptation and under the weight of their own venom. Deliver them not from any evil. Amen...
Under the proposed system, both students and masters would be allowed to state their preferences during the selection process. The final assignments to would then be made by a computer programmed to give equal weight to the masters' and students' preferences and to ensure "maximal satisfaction of preferences...
...Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange...
...years later the government proclaimed a national campaign to exterminate sparrows, one of the "four pests," (they eat many times their weight in grain each day) and Peking did its part in a one-day all-out effort. Early in the morning, the whole population started making noise and shooing sparrows. Every-where in the city, the sight of a single sparrow on a rooftop or in a tree was the signal for a tumult of shout, gongs and tin cans...
Compatibility Research came up with one real blooper. A Jewish Harvard sophomore asked for a 17 or 18 year old freshman between five feet, five inches and five feet, seven inches. He was given a senior from Emmanuel College: height--five feet, nine inches; weight--"I was afraid to ask." He added that his money is going to be refunded...