Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfit Islanders. In De Gaulle's Europe, France is first, Germany second, and the rest nowhere-they can tag along respectfully as camp followers, with little more weight or voice than tiny Luxembourg. Britain is rejected as unfit economically or politically to join this band of continental brothers because it 1) is an offshore island, and 2) has "special ties" with the U.S. and the Commonwealth. To De Gaulle's jaundiced eye. the British attempt to enter the Common Market was simply a Trojan horse maneuver (an expression used with suspicious frequency in Parisian editorials and salons last...
...fact all is commanded by the Americans, and it is the Americans who determine the use of your atomic weapons. (1960) The American interest is not always the French interest. This will be more and more true in the future, which will give Europe a greater and greater weight, and which will therefore contribute to diminishing the relative weight...
...proposals from female admirers. Such blandishments still dazzle the bulky ex-lumberjack, son of a Russian father and a Japanese mother, who was recruited by a sumo scout when he was 16 and weighed a mere 155 lbs. Apprenticed to a sumo stable in Tokyo, Taiho built up his weight by devouring large quantities of chanko-chicken, cabbage, potatoes, potato peels, radishes, carrots, flour and soy sauce, all beaten into a glutinous mass and served with buckets of rice. To toughen his bulk, Taiho trained for four hours a day, doing kneebends and backbends, and slamming into a wooden pillar...
...score seesawed back and forth during the match. Harvard pulled ahead 5-3 and 10-7 only to have the Lions pull up even. Then Columbia snatched the lead as John Mamana, wrestling over his weight at 177, was easily decisioned by the strong Stan Yanosvitz. But the varsity struck back, tying the match 13-13 with the decisioning of Lion John Velonis by 191-lb. John Hoffman...
...weight of national importance! Though the Forum was a recognized student organization, Seeger became a guest of the University in the eyes of the Administration. Dean Watson said: "Lawyers advise against the University getting involved in cases still pending in court." William Bentinck-Smith '37, Assistant to the President, added: "There should no Harvard seal on the thing, one way or another.... There's a difference between somebody performing at Harvard as an artist and appearing as a political figure." President Pusey decided that the University could not let a person with a case pending in the courts discuss...