Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif. "I use everything from the brushes that sweep the floor to rags. I use everything to remake the images. I am not trying at all to illustrate life." Bacon...
Explorer began to lift the submarine from its grave, tugging hard to unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with the protesting scream of straining electric engines and the scrape of taut steel cables...
...society unless most research is banned on fetuses that might be viable (that is, able to live outside the womb). At what point fetuses become viable is, of course, a subject under hot dispute. Federal guidelines proposed in 1971 limited experiments to fetuses less than 500 grams in weight (one fetus that weighed only 395 grams has survived outside the womb...
...When a three-year-old is asked to carry the top weight in a race against older horses, he will not win... Of all the characteristics of thoroughbreds, the one that seems to be carried most often from generation to generation is the ability to run well on grass... A handicapper should pay little attention to the sex of horses...
...plates that form the earth's surface bump, jostle and sometimes slide underneath each other, carrying the continents along with them. This activity often arouses the earth's volcanoes, most of which lie near plate boundaries. The core evidence discovered by Kennett and Thunell has given further weight to a viewpoint shared by an increasing number of scientists: that all major changes occurring in or above the earth-including variations in climate-are closely interrelated and must always be considered as part of a chain of global events...