Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh fight on the card, the light heavy weight contest between Anthony Doti of Providence, R.I. and Dennis Crowe of Mt. Loretto, N.Y. brought the crowd to a screaming frenzy with a nine-minute melee that ended with the New Yorker gaining a controversial decision...
...haggling," although the Tories were engaged in some backstairs dealing of their own. Having won over the Welsh, Callaghan and his lieutenants turned their attention to three of the twelve members from Ulster; most of the others were Protestant Unionists considered certain to vote with the Conservatives. The full weight of Labor lobbying came down upon Harold McCusker, Frank Maguire and Gerald Fitt. In the end, McCusker voted for the government, while Maguire and Fitt abstained. But Fitt, a Catholic who usually supported Labor, did so only after an anguished declaration of conscience that held the House in silence...
...victorious J.V. boat (cox-Ellen Chaffin, stroke-Liz Siderides, 7-Sarah Gallup, 6-Ellen Roy, 5-Cathy Vance, 4-Kate Heller, 3-Allison Herron, 2-Noreen Hughes, bow-Sarah Boxer) raced although they failed to make weight. Two women were over the 130-lb, maximum and the boat average was higher than the allowed 125 lbs. Both the other two squads qualified easily...
That sense of history lay at the heart of Carter's decision to use the presidential presence as a weight to gently force some concessions from both parties. At the Israeli state dinner the President declared, "We love Israel. But we are not jealous of you. We want you to have other friends...
...that of a novelist, but as an entertainer. In one very funny set piece. Littlefield, an associate fond of drugs and arcane legal philosophy, writes a brief for a crucial case that cites Cicero instead of legal precedents. He is fired by Lynch, a partner driven mad by the weight of his famous legal ancestors. The next morning, it is Lynch's turn to perform. In court to argue the case, he opens his mouth, but no words come out, leaving Weston to wonder if the poor wretch is going to make a silent oral argument before...