Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first. I hit him with it while he was sitting on the bunk. He came at me ... Each time he came, I struck at him. He grabbed me by the wrists, then he was behind me. I put my feet against the bunk to place my weight against him. I hit him over my right shoulder. He fell middleway on the bunk forward, his head facing the wall, his knees on the floor...
Motorcycles parked on Paris streets keeled over under their own weight as kickstands simply sank into asphalt that had turned to mush. In Jönköping, Sweden, city fathers warned parents not to let children play on park slides. Reason: too many badly burned bottoms. Ice cream sales climbed, and Britons lapped up Dalek Death Rays Ice Lollies (ices on a stick) at the rate of 2 million a week. They also forsook their tepid brews by the million, sending the sale of chilled Continental-style beer up by 60%. Hot pants were everywhere to be seen...
Phoebe was starting on a similar course. To lose weight she took diet pills; to overcome shyness, she drank. But if pills, liquor and drugs vanquished inhibitions, they also led to paranoia. "If I smoked a joint and went into a restaurant where people were laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...
...Weight. First, the antinuclear forces released an open letter to the President and Congress. Signed by 2,300 "members of the American technical community"-engineers, doctors and scientists, including nine Nobel laureates-it urged "a drastic reduction in new nuclear plant construction." Reason: there are still too many unanswered questions about the safety of atomic power plants, the disposal of radioactive wastes and the difficulties of safeguarding plutonium. Rather than take these nuclear risks, the scientists advised the Federal Government to: 1) start a strict energy conservation program; 2) develop nonpolluting ways of mining and burning coal; and 3) work...
...language- Spoken with a heavy Chinese accent, his words usually hover on the border between the incomprehensible and the profoundly suggestive. But as with the sage-like Stein in Conrad's Lord Jim, the half finished phrases, the almost aphoristic quality of his sentences, lend a mysterious weight to all he says...