Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided to go ahead with it. I paid and weighed myself. They wrote my weight on the back of my hand and snapped a blue band around my wrist, indicating I was in the heaviest allowable weight class and should have the strongest and shortest cord. I joined two instructors, two jumpers and two observers. They placed us in seat harnesses, weighed us again and took us to the elevator...
Mitch Johnson's parents, meanwhile, seemed to be collapsing under the weight of guilt. Mitchell's father Scott, a long-haul trucker, told CBS News, "As hard as it is for me to say that, my son is guilty." His ex-wife Gretchen spoke on ABC's 20/20 of the anguish in Jonesboro, saying, "There's just no words from any of us or anything anyone can do that will ever make that right again." She met with Perry, her son's spiritual adviser, for succor, telling him that she couldn't erase the images "of the children hurting...
...experimental investigation, and Harvard rowers represent a natural experiment. Bribiescas says that because there are two subsets of rowers: heavyweights who can eat as much as they want and lightweights who must maintain their weight at a certain level, the group forms a perfect data set, one that simply does not occur in the "wild...
...scandal about to break on the other end of the line. Stephanopoulos calmly but urgently persuaded the caller that the allegation would not hold up in public and that coming forward was not worth the certain resultant embarrassment of the accuser. At that moment, it seemed, the full weight of the election's outcome was on the shoulders of a loyal campaign strategist, trying to quash yet one more rumor in the hours before the polls opened. Stephanopoulos today is an analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged...
...National tournament was highlighted by the spectacular wrestling of DeNunzio, who won sixth place and thus earned All America honors, the first Harvard man to do so in fifteen years. DeNunzio, who wrestled in the 134-pound weight class, faced six matches...