Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cadets, it is questionable how many will return since they have gone on to other things. Any change in the honor system must be approved by the cadets themselves, who only this month narrowly failed to reach the two-thirds vote necessary to amend the current system. But the weight of the Borman report is expected to change enough minds to modify the code in a subsequent vote. Says Cadet Peter Eschenbach, class of '78: "I used to be a hard-liner about the code, but after seeing my friends fall by the wayside. I feel differently...
While Tip may rule the House, he could find that with Millie ruling the household seven days a week, he might at last lose weight and keep it off. Although he stands 6 ft. 2½ in., he has yo-yoed between 210 and 296 lbs., now carries a bulky...
...other hand, Sal D'agostino, who was Second Team All-Ivy last year at 190 lbs., has dropped a weight this season and become an absolute terror. Before the Wildcat battle, he was 4-0 with three pins. The heavyweight grappler, co-captain Kip Smith, had already racked up 18 career victories...
...Although four doctors rotated in taking care of Hughes, his medical condition was appalling. His former 6-ft. 4-in. frame had shrunk three inches, and his weight fluctuated between a high of 130 Ibs. and a cadaverous 90 Ibs. He suffered variously from anemia, arthritis and assorted other ills. Nothing plagued him more than constipation; at one time, he sat on the toilet for 72 straight hours, occasionally propping himself on a chair set next to him so he could support himself while dozing...
...some point during his last days in the humid, blacked?out bedroom his kidneys failed, and he began to suffer uremic poisoning. As the subsequent autopsy disclosed, his kidneys had atrophied to less than half their normal size and weight...