Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge Department of Human Services will help the four with their security deposit, said Cambridge Emergency Services Coordinator Philip F. Mangano. But he said they would try to pull their own weight afterwards. "They have indicated by establishing monthly incomes that they can pay the monthly rent," he added...
...pretarget landmark. Reaching it, he tugs slightly on the F-16's stick. The jet rockets up 3,000 feet in a standard "pop up" bombing pattern. Climbing, Anderson feels his face droop and his body react "like a marshmallow" to a gravity force four times his weight. Through heavy eyelids, he finds the tank...
...Multiple images of multiple candidates float through the night air -- the bright auditorium, the shiny "hopefuls." The audience almost unconsciously makes a ritual calculation. They do not judge the men on the issues, really, so much as on the unarticulated question of gravitas. Which of the candidates has the weight, the size, the something, to become President...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, a figure of gravitas among world leaders, achieves his effect precisely by reversing the Slavic inevitabilities: opening the windows, airing out the old system. The earlier generations of Soviets (Leonid Brezhnev, for example) sat upon the world's stage like dark boulders. Weight is not enough. Gravitas is weight with complexities of life and intelligence...
...grown diminished. The Old Testament, that thunderous text inhabited by nothing less than the gravitas of God, recorded, "There were giants in the earth in those days." Americans now alive remember Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy -- not all giants in any consensus but men of weight and consequence. But history is full of optical illusions...