Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
...date you to name another house that guarantees these essentials of perfect House life: a friendly dining hall staff A well-stocked weight room. Single bedrooms to juniors and seniors--as well as a bagpipe extravaganza to usher in the school year. The benefits abound the longer you stay in the house...
Dunster's facilities include seven squash courts, a basketball court, a weight room, a pottery studio, a wood-working shop and practice rooms for the house's several rock bands and for "normal classical music people," says DeMay, who plays in the band...
...campus is awash with posters announcing too many comp meetings, advertising too many concerts and soliciting too many submissions, while clogged kiosks sag under the weight of information overload...
...assesses the relative weight of these factors I cannot say precisely, and I do not know what anyone can. If I am right, professors, over-graded all students to justify, and obscure, their overgrading of Blacks, so the phenomenon, like so much having to do with affirmative action, was concealed from the beginning. Perhaps one could compare the grades of Blacks when they are identifiable as such with the results when they are graded anonymously, as at Harvard Law School, but these figures are not available, and so I have to rely on my observation and others'. I join...