Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic recipes (or receipts, as they are sometimes called in the South) are passed down in the spidery handwriting of ancestresses or in the slim, prim, printed compendiums that are still put out by local ladies to raise funds for church or charity. They are worth their weight in saffron. Sarah Rutledge's The Carolina Housewife, published in 1874, is an incomparable guide to Southern cuisine that is available today only in underground Xerox print...
...Heflin, 55, is a strapping giant of a man, but he conspicuously avoids throwing his weight around. His background might well have produced a dyed-in-the-cot-ton supporter of the status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World...
...team came back in "mediocre shape," Field said. "Some were in good shape and some weren't," Field said. She added that the players will be doing stadiums and weight training to develop their upper body and legs...
...Davis affair has given us one lesson. Accusations about the strictly racial implications of Davis's statements, whether wrong or right, carry little weight with many of the people who embrace his consideration of standards of excellence. If anything, such attacks will only goad people into Davis's camp, possible through sympathy for the scholar's rights of academic freedom...
Delderfield's answer is hardly original, but coming from a saga writer, it bears a special weight. Looking back at himself 40 years later, old Charlie concludes that young Charlie was more or less right. A man must kick against the System-play the rebel, if not the outlaw-in order to become a man. Listening to Charlie, Delderfield seems staggered himself and hastily pulls back from profundity to close out his novel with a twist as old as one of O. Henry's. Still, it works, just as almost everything by Delderfield works. Who else could write...