Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danny Jiggetts, competing in the 35-pound weight throw, failed to qualify for the finals, tossing the weight only 55 feet, four feet short of the qualifying distance. Jiggetts got off only one clean throw, fouling on the other...
Penn senior Ray Sarinelli dominated the selection in the 150 lb. weight class for the third year in a row. Sarinelli registered a unanimous vote in the coaches selection...
Holmes dissents carried as much weight as his concurring opinions and, as a later Supreme Court, Justice, Fells Frankfurter commented they often "shaped history...
...government could hold out until the rains return in May, thereby gaining several more months of power. On the other hand, the insurgents could decide to hold back in their attack on the capital, preferring to let the government cave in sooner or later from its own weight. In this way the Khmer Rouge could put off assuming the awesome burden of running -and feeding-a capital that is overflowing with thousands of hungry refugees and hundreds of wounded soldiers and civilians. The Khmer Rouge are woefully short of political and administrative cadres and if they should enter the city...
...Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas, but out of vanity-to enable him to keep his weight down and preserve his thin, appealing figure, which was almost as memorable as his strikingly handsome features...