Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets were not inhibited from building the Berlin Wall or putting missiles in Cuba. Kissinger riposted softly, "They might feel less inhibited if we didn't have superiority." While concern about Soviet superiority had been raised by other witnesses, such as the Joint Chiefs, it carried extra weight coming from Kissinger. Just five years ago, he declared: "What in the name of God is strategic superiority? What is the significance of it?" But last week he recanted, explaining that the statement had been made "after an exhausting negotiation" and that it "reflected fatigue and exasperation, not analysis." When...
Chandler has approached both work and play with that same drive to prove himself. A big-game hunter who says his sport has taken him to "all the high mountains of the world," Chandler is also a motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest...
Child actors started to carry their share of the weight of heightened political and social reality. "I think it is the most hopeful business of movies to find the perfect people rather than the perfect artists," wrote James Agee in a review of National Velvet that was like a prose sonnet to the young Elizabeth Taylor...
...that is rather like saying that if it were not for overeating, fat people would have no difficulty losing weight. The fact is that the nation's energy and inflation struggles are hopelessly intertwined, and neither can be won alone. Earlier this spring, for instance, the Administration confidently insisted that the rise in food prices would slow sharply during the year. Though many economists still believe this, the Agriculture Department no longer seems so confident just where food prices will end up, and last week conceded that prices would probably climb by about 11% during the year, just about...
...those "comic" greeting cards. Over the years, the war escalated. Sam Matar, a car dealer in Monterey, Calif., shipped off 25 such cards to his brother John, making fun of John's being seven years older. Sam got back 50 cards making fun of his weight...