Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidency gains in weight and power, Parliament sinks (thus making an increased Moslem representation in it of less importance). Parliament is permitted to meet only twice a year and then for only three months at a time. Parliament can pass laws, but only in certain circumscribed areas. No Deputy's vote may be counted if he is absent, and if a Deputy accepts either a Cabinet post or a government position, he must withdraw from Parliament...
...snatches of Shakespeare. Richard II abdicates, and before his robes are fairly off, Hamlet is making plans. Romeo dies with a kiss on his lips, steps modestly back amid applause, and reads a sonnet. To juxtapose great speeches is to pretend that their greatness is sham, and give weight to the Puritan notion that the theatre is only a dirty trick...
...strokes, developing into a grave condition of the heart and lungs, carried him away under the weight of his 82 years...
...What concerns me primarily is not the patent and deliberate effort of a State Department subordinate to undercut the Secretary of State and sabotage his policy. What is of far greater concern is the apparent assumption on the part of those who put out the story that the weight of the mail rather than the weight of the evidence should be the controlling factor in determining American foreign policy...
This action, the first of its type in several years, will clear the "dead weight" and "paper" clubs from the Republican roster. Only Republican clubs making positive contributions to Republicanism will have their charters renewed...