Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President whose performance in office was approved by only 36% of the population in the Harris survey taken in January, the first primary provided sharp injections of added confidence. Carter's solid if unspectacular 30% of the Democratic vote, in a field of five major candidates, lent new weight to his dogged optimism. After three impressive showings in the first five nonprimary, caucus states (he placed first in Iowa, Maine and Oklahoma), his is the only campaign that holds real possibilities of breaking far ahead of the pack...
...fortunately not something we see in civilian life. In fact, the only time I've seen it is in [prisoner of war] returnees." Orne admitted to Bancroft that Patty might be deceiving him and others, but he added that after weighing all the possibilities, he felt "the weight of the data is unequivocally that she was not simulating...
Last week's statistics lent weight to the President's position. In the final quarter of 1975, the gross national product rose at a rate of 4.9%, its third consecutive quarterly increase; and inflation climbed at a 6.8% rate, down .3% from the preceding quarter. The New York Stock Exchange last week set a one-day trading record of 44,510,000 shares, and the Dow Jones industrial average surged 26.85 points in two days, to 987.80-its highest level in three years...
...like a father, leaning toward the witness box and questioning her so calmly that the two might have been having an intimate conversation away from the eyes of all the strangers in the room. Patty said that she had lost 15 lbs. in the closets, dropping to a weight of 90 lbs., and that when the blindfolds were removed, the light had stabbed painfully into her eyes. She vividly re-created the tension that she claimed she lived under the all-consuming fear that if she did not cooperate with her captors, "I'd be dead...
...handled by Bronx-born Howard Austen, 47, Vidal's companion for 26 years. Vidal rises most mornings between 9:30 and 11, has a small breakfast and then writes until 3 p.m., pausing only to consume a boiled egg for lunch. Next comes 30 to 45 minutes of weight lifting, a daily regimen to keep his 6-ft. frame tolerably within range of 180 Ibs. When this fails, he adopts a last resort: holing up in a hotel where he hates the food. Vidal manifests an unembarrassed narcissism about his appearance. "When I was a little boy," he says...