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Word: weighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design. Made of a high-strength organic fiber, it features a flattened top and "skirts" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Farewell to the Wobble Pot? | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...noises in the forest, even if no man is there to hear, and whose sexuality, in particular, functions without any by-your-leave from old social presumptions. Now a determined trend spotter can point to a handful of new films whose makers think that women can bear the dramatic weight of a production alone, or virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...problem is to devise a system that differentiates between students who are malingering and those who are really sick, which UHS physicians say they are reluctant to try to do on their own. No one has any concrete proposals yet for a policy that will take the weight off UHS, but chances are they will--before the January exam period...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Fighting An Excuse Epidemic | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...just no fun anymore. We can't sit around and laugh about George Scott's weight problem, Luis Tiant's ambiguous age, or Rick Wise's Chem-20-like glasses. We can't say "I told you so" about early-season Yankee dissension. All we seem to do is regret all those nights we were glued to Channel 38 instead of a reference book. What does Jim Rice care anyway that we're in Group...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Fear And Losing at Fenway | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...wide-ranging economic issues enough to wish that their side could produce equally good ones. Now it can, through the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. The Washington-based A.E.I., founded back in 1943, long languished in obscurity, but during the 1970s it has steadily gained enough intellectual weight to become a sort of Republican Brookings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Other Think Tank | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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