Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fleetwood Mac, a band whose average lyric has the approximate weight and consistency of a summer breeze, have become the smash success story of the late '70s. They even outpoint the Eagles; their last album, 1977's Rumours, has rung up sales of something like 15 million copies. Their new album, Tusk, is two records' worth of prime Mac material; they may even be cueing it up in Dorset right...
...witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason to care...
...during closed-door hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees last week added no fresh arguments to those that had been heard many times. Paul Nitze, former SALT negotiator and perhaps the nation's leading SALT critic, sounded his usual warning that the enormous throw-weight (the capacity of a ballistic missile to deliver a payload) allowed the Soviet Union would "tend to nail down a dangerous strategic imbalance." He urged the Senate to postpone consideration of the treaty until the U.S. has strengthened its strategic forces. But the normally hawkish Armed Services Committee chairman, Mississippi...
They came by the thousands, eyes downcast, silently edging through the high grass near the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet. Men without legs, hobbling on crutches. Women in rags, staggering beneath the weight of wooden poles hung with pots and pans, clothing and bedrolls, hatchets and rubber sandals. Children, some covered with sores, many of them naked, stumbling along at the heels of their parents...
...disappearance of the exotic car would hurt the development of automotive technology. Those sweet chariots pioneered, among other things, techniques for maintaining stability at high speeds, and were early users of radial tires and light-weight alloys that later became popular on mass-produced models...