Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus $17 for the diet lists). Despite palace "No comments," Hollanders thought that De Cock might soon be paring a few more royal lines: at Juliana...
...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...
...weighed in with voluminous notes about life inside the Kremlin. Samples: "Lighters: not usually used . . . They use safety matches . . . They are very fond of potted palms." Director Delbert ("Marty") Mann put together a briefcase full of filing cards, constantly studied their cryptic information: "Stalin, 73, 5 ft. 4 in., weight 150-190. Doodles wolves, girls, castles and word Lenin...
...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...
...scheduled at 5:30 p.m., some five hours after the contest with RAF Benson. During the afternoon, Coach Brown and his crew waited anxiously at a small house in the town two blocks from the railway station. Although comparative timings showed Harvard to be superior, Thames had an average weight of almost 13 stone. With the eyes and ears of the nation watching or listening to the BBC, anything might have happened...