Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Friday last week, a grotesque lump of a man emerged from the medieval Roman Catholic church in Corsica's olive-growing village of Sartène. Barefoot, masked in a blood-red hood with eye slits, the bent figure staggered under the weight of a massive oak cross. From his right ankle dragged a clanking, 31-lb. chain. And from under the hood came an anguished, muffled chant: "Perdonno, mio dio . . . Perdonno...
Finally, the report concludes that the weight of the eyewitness testimony, the evidence of the cap, the "consciousness of guilt" evidence, and the ballistics testimony proved that Sacco was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Then it weights the evidence and comes to the frustrating conclusion that "On the whole, we are of opinion that Vanzetti was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." "On the whole" and "beyond a reasonable doubt" simply do not seem compatible...
...were the Democratic Party and the United Auto Workers. What the opponents objected to most strenuously was the proposed constitution's provisions on legislative reapportionment. At the convention. Democrats had argued for legislative representation based solely upon population, but Con-Con adopted instead a complex provision giving 80% weight to population and 20% to "land area." The area factor would give extra representation to the state's predominantly Republican rural sections...
...noted, however, that a lot depends on just how much weight the Commission and Federal agencies decide to place upon the examinations. "It's conceivable that exam scores will be counted very little in selecting summer employees," he said...
...onstage by temple-pounding. Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff sees the tortured Czar as a man who "dies of his own sin, his own dishonesty-not heart trouble or mental illness." At the Met this season, operagoers have seen George London's Boris die twice (broken by the weight of genius); last week's schedule brought Giorgio Tozzi (a tender Boris enraged to death...