Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gruesome Weight. The next day an anonymous caller telephoned the Belfast Telegraph and, in the name of the South Armagh Republican Action Force-a branch of the Provisional Irish Republican Army-claimed responsibility for the killings. They were carried out, the caller said, in retaliation for the assassination the previous night of five Catholics, apparently by Protestant extremists. In what constitutes sad testimony to the endless cycle of terror and reprisal in Ulster, those murders were, in turn, thought to be in retaliation for three recent pub bombings by the Provisional I.R.A. that killed three and injured...
Harvard opened strong in the weight events. Ed Ajootian nabbed his first varsity win in the 35-lb. Weight throw as he hurled a personal best 59 ft. 10 34 in. toss, just edging Dan Jiggetts for the top sport. Jiggetts picked up second place with a 59 ft. 10 12 in. heave...
...Wilson tells People Magazine he has discovered it is normal to eat eight times one's body weight. He reports that his conclusion grew out of experiments involving snakes and ants...
...neurosurgeon at Stanford University Medical Center, "I've been well accepted by professionals and patients all along the way. If you pull your own weight, do a competent job, you're accepted." Conley is both amused and irritated when she goes to a party with her husband Philip, a financial analyst: "Everybody asks him what he does, and conversation revolves around that. Nobody asks me what I do. They think they know...
...Marriage. As it streamlined and liberalized its procedures, the Congress also fought to assert its authority as a branch of the Government that is at least equal in weight to the White House. In foreign relations, Congress stubbornly defied the President for months by refusing to lift the arms embargo it had imposed on Turkey for using American arms in its invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Not until October did Congress finally ease the ban, which severely damaged U.S.-Turkish relations and disrupted the NATO alliance in the eastern Mediterranean...