Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays the best, bone-clean "white soul" anywhere. Along with their musicianship, a lack of self-indulgence plays a large part in the beauty of their sound. The singing is as loose as a hired field hand's and is exactly right on each cut. With The Weight, they pay their debt to country gospel music and then some. The bring-it-on-home chorus, "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free,/Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me," begs for a singalong. This album is an event, and will...
...provision into the Constitution that permitted three-fifths of their slaves to be tallied in determining their seats in the House of Representatives-even though the slaves could not vote. Direct presidential election would have undercut that advantage. The Electoral College allowed the South to swing the numerical weight of its slaves without granting them suffrage. "In politics," writes Constitutional Historian John Roche, "there are no immaculate conceptions. The Electoral College was merely a jerry-rigged improvisation which has subsequently been endowed with a high theoretical content. It had little in its favor as an institution-as the delegates well...
...ever so slightly toward the top-as are the Parthenon's classical Doric columns. Although the museum's 6-ft.-thick roof looks perfectly flat, it too is designed to deceive the eye. The center has been slightly raised so that a disproportionately large share of the weight may be directed outward onto the columns...
...feelings may have been about Robert Kennedy as a rival, he was willing to give up nine months of effort for Ted last week. Sounded out by Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, at the height of the Teddy boomlet, McCarthy offered to throw all his weight to the last surviving brother. "Smith said Teddy wouldn't go for it if he had to fight with me," McCarthy recounted. "I told him he wouldn't have to fight with me. I told him I was willing to give all the strength I had to Kennedy...
...willing to win or lose as much as 50% on their money in a single year, can go for so-called "feeder contracts." For a down payment of $50,000 or so, Oppenheimer will handle the financing and feeding of a 500-head herd until the cattle reach proper weight and grade. The herd must then go to market, whether volatile beef prices are on the rise (which means win) or too low to cover costs (which means lose...