Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weight of the snow that remained in the trees was too much for some branches to support, according to Bernard K. Keohan, manager of grounds in the Facilities Maintenance Department...
...week after the attack, Lenard had yet to regain full consciousness. While a parade of politicians and community leaders filed past his hospital bed to pay their respects, the rest of the city wrestled with feelings of profound disgust, anger and shame evoked by a crime with unusual symbolic weight. The suspects in the attack, Michael Kwidzinski, 19, Victor Jasas, 17, and Frank Caruso, 18, live in Bridgeport, a neighborhood near Chicago's old stockyards that has given the city five of its last eight mayors, including Richard M. Daley, who grew up in Bridgeport and attended the same Roman...
...Ford, if not Wills, shrewdly sensed, the imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness Wayne conveyed onscreen gave good dramatic weight to this sense of obligation. But by 1979, when he died, most of us no longer found that idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture had ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of the simple moralities that Wayne embodied--moralities that even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne's legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep eluding Wills, derive from that curiously haunting sense...
...When the trust placed in colleges evaporates in the face of unreasonable costs, the ivory towers will collapse under their own weight." STEPHEN D. HAUFE Clinton, Iowa...
When the Coalition for Excess Weight Risk Education announced recently that Kansas City, Missouri, my hometown, was the fourth most obese city in the U.S., I received some congratulatory telephone calls that I suspect were not entirely sincere...