Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote was close-5,864 to 5,706 -but even a majority of one would have had the weight of a landslide. The 19th District in northwest Detroit has sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even...
...sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends a hand. Green Bay's Lombardi claims that he can put 15 lbs. of solid muscle on anybody with a carefully supervised program of weight lifting and isometric exercise. Florida's Graves feeds his football players a drink called "Gatorade," which tastes like weak lemonade but is really a combination of glucose, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, calcium cyclamate and citric acid. It was designed by scientists to replenish the chemicals...
...transporter, designed for Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board, has already been used to carry a 155-ton transformer over a bridge that otherwise would have failed under the load: a hover platform built into the transporter suspended the transformer on a cushion of air, reducing its effective weight by about 70 tons...
Stones crop out all over, and one feels not only the weight of them but also their sublapidary meaning. In Lowell's vision, Moses' tablets of the law become "the stones we cannot bear or break." The great slab of rock upon which Prometheus is chained by Jupiter for his technological hubris in bringing fire from heaven is the center stage of Lowell's version of Aeschylus. Much of Lowell's poetry is indeed stony. It is hard with the condemnation of his age and his society. Just as his confessionals are far beyond personal confession...
Proud Clarion, according to observers, has lost weight and does not look at the peak of his Derby form, while Damascus has apparently thrived on the work. Still, the Derby cannot be discounted, and Proud Clarion should get a piece of the money...