Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captain junior Dustin DeNunzio (26-3) has the top seed in his 134-pound weight class. Tri-captain junior Ed Mosley (21-6) is seeded second in the 167-pound class and in the 118-pound class tri-captain James Butera (19-10) is seeded fifth...
...Abra Fortune Chernik said in her essay "The Body Politic," "Gaining weight and getting my head out of the toilet bowl was the most political act I ever committed...
...know, it's crazy," responded the woman. "It's disgusting. How about this poster: `By the year 2000, Americans will be spending $77 billion on weight-loss, or the entire GNP of Belgium.' Can you believe that we spend the worth of an entire small nation to lose weight? How warped is that...
...stall, we found written on a poster about fat hatred: "To ECHO--I don't think this sign helps. It only reminds the overly-weight conscious of how much the world does care about how s/he looks." Someone responded, "Do you mean to say that in your opinion our culture does not have weight issues?" Not everyone agreed, but we were still successful: dialogue began and that was our goal. As someone responding to the same poster so aptly put it: "Self-awareness is always a good thing...
McCorkle said she struggles to create stories and characters from "little kernels of truth" while balancing the weight of writing and teaching with taking care of a family...