Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underside and shaded slate topside, the world's biggest submarine this week poised for its slow, stern-first slide into the Thames River at Groton, Conn. The submarine George Washington SSB(N) 598-longer than a football field (380 ft.) and, at 5,600 tons, almost twice the weight of Nautilus-would carry with it the U.S. Navy's highest hopes for the future. It is the first of the submarines designed around the Polaris ballistic-missile weapons system...
...blitz raid of Sunday, Dec. 29, 1940, was one of the worst. "The weight of the attack," wrote Sir Winston Churchill later, "centered upon the City of London itself. It was an incendiary classic. Nearly 1,500 fires had to be fought. Eight Wren churches were destroyed or damaged. The Guildhall was smitten by fire and blast, and St. Paul's Cathedral was only saved by heroic exertions. A void of ruin at the very center of the British world gapes upon us to this day." But for all its grim destruction, the "incendiary classic" may yet have some...
Like Iscariot, we are prostrated by a weight too oppressive for us to bear, and it is anything but an accident that, as Niebuhr and Tillich and Dawson have shown us, religious language provides the most adequate metaphors for conveying our thoughts and feelings on this subject. But it is of the first importance to remember what the distinguished theologians themselves sometimes forget, that these are only metaphors. Only religious discourse has evolved expressions powerful enough to convey how pressing political concerns have become today because the latter alone today speaks meaningfully of what once the former alone could speak...
...year study, the A.M.A. had teams of scientists at Harvard and Massachusetts' Springfield College run controlled experiments on in athletes in some 1,300 performances. Results: weight throwers improved between 3% and 4%, runners 1.5%, swimmers between...
...findings the A.M.A. added warnings. The pills can help for one climactic occasion, but result in bad hangovers. Used habitually, they can lead to loss of weight, addiction, and, in the end, brain damage...