Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's heavy-weight crew was one of eight crews to qualify for the 1998 National Collegiate Women's Rowing Championship, help May 28-30 on Lake Lanier in Gainesville...
...while self-consciousness motivated her toundergo the surgery, Laura's father was driven bydifferent concerns. He was worried that hernose--which she says he characterized as Jewishlooking--would subject her to harsh discriminationin the workplace. After considering the weight ofthe decision to alter her appearance, Lauraeventually agreed...
...abdomen shrank 70%. "I've been on the drug now for over a year," says Barry Riccio, a college professor from Illinois who is suffering from a rare sarcoma. "I have more energy than I did just nine months ago, and I've gained back a lot of weight...
Where the strength of Kavanagh's style is most evident in its ability to grapplewith this ambiguity--to name duplicity withsharp-shooter accuracy that gives weight to eachside and validity to contradiction. Refined by avocabulary that sends the reader scurrying for thedictionary both in attempt to reacquaint herselfwith nautical anatomy and with words of ratherstartling specificity, Gaff Topsails is notalways an easy book to read. Although Kavanagh'sintimate knowledge makes for description asaccurate and illuminating as his vocabulary,imbuing this description with creative imaginationdemands a heavy toll in effort. There is a chapterdevoted exclusively to the geological history ofthe Newfoundland...
...school that has this much money, it's adisgrace that the common weight room is ashambles," Cooper said...