Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rita's Hospital, where Dr. Vernon Noble found her in excellent health, she got just the sort of treatment she had asked for: only a local anesthetic before delivery. Baby girl No. 1 (4 lbs. 2½ oz.) arrived at 3:27 p.m.; No. 2 (same weight) at 3:29; No. 3 (2 lbs. 9½ oz.) by breech delivery at 3:40 p.m.; and No. 4 (3 lbs. 12½ oz.) at 3:45. As each baby was born, Dr. Noble held her up and the mother listened to their successive cries...
...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
Nothing Indelicate. As for Mummy herself, she remains rosy-cheeked, good-humored and dashingly dressed throughout, with nary a swollen ankle or an extra pound of weight to trouble her. There is no question but that her gentle gestation will terminate in the totally painless birth of a perfect, silky-haired baby who, like Mother, will never be bothered by anything so indelicate as diaper rash or colic...
...short-term aid to ailing economies. The IMF has become a powerful and controversial force in the world economy, forcing upon loan-seeking nations stiff conditions that frequently rescue their economies but gall their free-spending politicians. With loans at work in 24 developing nations, the IMF swings considerable weight from the Nile to the River Plate. Last week the IMF announced that it will grant larger loans to nations whose economies suffer from temporary declines in prices of their exports-and do so with less stringent demands for internal corrective policies. The world's underdeveloped nations welcomed...
...Olney "Art" Croasdale, a scion of the varsity track team, outpointed fellow Winthrop House member David Grose-close for the unlimited weight class title. After easily conquering two other contenders in his rise to the finals, Croasdale kept Groseclose in a pinning hold for a full six seconds, but not tightly enough to make the victory immediate...