Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many people . . . sensing the weight of opposition against Britain, thought privately that peace on any terms that did not offer actual humiliation was preferable to taking the brunt of the ferocious German assaults that would presumably grow worse...
...Kansas and Missouri, the 43rd of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the 51st of Florida and South Carolina. Those outfits (authorized division strength: 13,500) would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets. But 1,000 new units would be created, such as guerrilla-warfare squads. The end result, McNamara hopes, will be a lean, modernized reserve capable of taking up front-line positions in as little as four weeks...
...With new weight thrower Art Doten sitting out for the evening, the Crimson had managed to take all nine points in the 35 lb. weight event. Olney Croasdale's 49 ft., 10 in. test was good for first. Neal Cartin and Joe Jurek added second and third place points to round out the first event of the meet...
Heading the weight events, senior Art Doton, second place finisher in the weights last year's Hope, gets help from Loren Clayman. Soph Art Croasdale is also good, but an injured hand may keep him from putting the shot...
...Harvard finished fourth in the Coast Guard tournament, largely because of the efforts of captain Bob Kolodney who placed first in his 157-pound class. He will wrestle at the same weight today...