Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Joe Killar surprised two of the top 12 wrestlers in the nation including last year's EIWA champion, Brown's Mike Francesca, whom he beat 11-2. Killar, wrestling in the 150-pound weight class, placed eighth in the tournament, the highest finish for a Crimson wrestler...
Casual readers will be most interested in the many stories of inspiring derring-do, as well as cautionary tales of derring-don't--the weight of which tends to suggest that they don't make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the storied American cabaret star who made her home in Paris, spied for the Allies during World War II. She slipped out of Vichy France with intelligence information written on her music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames...
...harmony ends there, however, because Detroit is likely to resist the proposal for smart air bags. Automakers insist that elaborate systems tailored to the weight and position of each occupant would be difficult to engineer and test, and could add as much as $600 to the cost of each vehicle. But just as in its earlier opposition to air bags, Detroit may learn to live with all that extra trouble--and so too may the driving public...
...public he may show off his old glibness and good cheer, but since the criminal trial ended, O.J. Simpson has not been doing well, say friends and associates. He is broke and largely isolated, gaining weight and receiving no offers that would provide an income. The Rockingham house, where he still lives, is surrounded by two fences and watched by a security guard. Simpson's mother Eunice, his sister Shirley Baker and her husband Benny are staying in the house, with Shirley doing the cooking. To save on expenses, Robert Blasier, one of Simpson's lawyers, is living...
...civil-service berth shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces--among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects a U.S. decision to put its weight behind (or to lean against) the U.N. But partly, the expansion of power reflects the personal confidence which Hammarskjold has inspired...