Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other backs in Penn's I-formation are George Burrell, Gerry Santini, and the great Cabot Knowlton. Split end Rick Owens is Creeden's favorite pass target. The offensive line, however, suffers from lack of weight...
...Kurt Georg Kiesinger offered little solace. "It would be no use banging the table," he said. "Anyone who knows President de Gaulle will understand that this would produce the opposite effect. The only way is to try to convince the French by intellectual arguments, and hope that the overwhelming weight of European public opinion will make them change their position...
...that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions in an even narrower hypnotic beam, and makes the lifting of an eyebrow do what other singers strike poses...
...style, and developed with attention to details of character and locality, ranging from the involutions of a twisted family group to forest, sea, and asphalt geography of his native California. They are books which go far beyond justifying the presence of their thematic content, to giving that content the weight of artistic truth...
Died. Frank Perkins, 79, founder of the world's largest producer of diesel engines; after a long illness; in Peterborough, England. Inventor in 1932 of a fuel-injection device that gave higher diesel horsepower with much less weight, Perkins built his small shop into the giant of its field, with annual sales of $980 million when he retired 30 years later...