Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television one afternoon last week, De Gaulle warned that unless he got the massive support he wanted, he might abandon France to the political and economic disarray from which he had rescued it in 1958. Cried De Gaulle: "The weight and influence of France, so recently considered the 'sick man of Europe,' are recognized today throughout the world!" Taking personal credit-with good reason-for France's present political stability, sound money and favorable trade balance, he said: "For myself, each yes that you give me will be proof of your confidence and your encouragement...
Then burn! she sang. For flames consume the air! Your weight shall win! I will be yours somewhere! I am confused! he cried in flames. Undone ! You're mine to burn? Bright love, what have...
...amethyst bead, a gem, and a beautiful gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (408-450 A.D.)--found hidden under a stone weight in the collonade on the opposite side of the street --hint that the "Jewellers' Row" of Sardis was nearby...
Moreover, by organizing his materials mainly in biographical sketches, Taylor succeeds in making his inherently vague subject matter substantial and consequential. The knowledge that real people once gambled their careers and--sometimes--their sanity on these propositions, gives the reader some idea of the weight they once carried--if the fact that their essential sterility helped produce the Civil War didn't suffice...
...government sent investigators who warned the cadres. Once the investigators were gone, Chan says, "the cadres fixed me good. They clamped forty-pound leg irons on my ankles and linked them together with a two-foot chain." After nine months of leg irons and solitary confinement, Chan's weight dropped from...