Word: weight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of setting down and finding that swing," heavy-weight coxswain Travis Metz said...
...artist has a prophetic mission in society has haunted Russian culture since the 19th century. That heavy burden crushed novelist Nikolai Gogol, who was never able to equal his masterpiece Dead Souls. It ultimately led other writers, like Leo Tolstoy, away from art and into dogmatic polemics. The weight can be felt today on the Soviet artistic community. But the essential paradox of glasnost is that when cultural leaders raise their voices, they can no longer be heard above the excited babble of an entire nation learning to speak for the first time...
THOUGH Rizzo, who turned Republican to run in the last mayoral election after he lost the Democratic primary, has been out of office for nearly a decade, he's still throwing his hefty weight around in the City of Brotherly Love. After he lost last year's mayoral race to incumbent W. Wilson Goode, Rizzo became a talk show host on WCAU-AM, one of Philadelphia's highest profile radio talk stations...
When the concentration was first approved, the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies was unable to move into the spot chosen by University administrators because FAS officials determined the floor would collapse under the weight of its filing cabinets...
Upon arrival, there was a mix-up over the Black and White's rooming accommodations at the 32nd Street Naval Base. The heats for the light-weight event, cancelled because CalPoly scratched, threw Radcliffe directly into the final with no idea of what to expect from the other crews. And a vicious rumour in an inaccurate program made some rowers think that they had to weigh 125 lbs. (instead of 130) to make weight for the regatta...