Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest supermarket in the world is always jammed with people, all of whom walk around purposefully, looking for bargains and talking to one another. The vast space is easy to move through, and doesn't weight them down. Somehow they have gotten a grip on the place, and it doesn't frighten them to shop there. Everything there works as the customers expect it to work, and that a place can be so big and manageable at the same time seems to make people happy. I tell people that it's sort of a monument to the human spirit...
Died. Dr. Irwin M. Stillman, 79, co-author of The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet (1967) and other bestselling weight-control guides, whose drastic prescription for obesity-quick shedding of excess pounds through an extreme highprotein, low-carbohydrate regimen-brought him a wide following as well as much criticism from more conventional nutrition experts; of a heart attack; in North Miami...
What better example of the "suggestive influence of the unexpressed"? In form, this statement is identical to the thousands of thinly disguised imperatives that follow, each heavy with the weight of the unsaid: "In addition, every undergraduate must satisfy the requirements of an approved field of concentration"; "A student will be promoted at the end of any term upon the basis of total final credits accumulated"; "A student in an honors program may have his work judged unworthy of honors in the field, but worthy of a degree...
Most of the women interviewed never got along with their proctors. One characterized hers as "totally unhelpful--he was always telling the girls to lose weight. He basically ignored us unless we were exceptionally good-looking. You have enough problems freshman year without that." A freshwoman who lived in a mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with...
...Help overweight linemen lose weight rapidly by making them exercise while wearing plastic suits. This guarantees that they will perspire profusely and exposes them to the risk of dangerous dehydration of body cells...