Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despair, I came across a rather stimulating article in The New York Times. In its "Campaign 92" pages was a piece bemoaning the lack of caustic political humor in this year's campaign. It seems that the most telling political humor only establishes itself under authoritarian regimes: the weight of government peering over the shoulders of the citizens of communist states drives the etiolated spirit to renewal via satire. Satire's effectiveness is one nurtured in tiny Smoke-filled rooms, where combatants of wit can exchange furtive one-liners knowing that Big Brother has temporarily been shut out. Dilute...
...neighborhood residents have organized to oppose the move. They say the economic health of the square, already the home of 31 social services, might collapse under weight of hosting the shelter...
There will be 16 races, organized by age, weight, sex and rowing ability. The featured races are the men's and women's Championship Eights, scheduled to begin around 4:15 in the afternoon. Over 250 boats are scheduled to compete...
According to Yoon, the committee wants to seemore tenured Asian-American professors at Harvardbecause they "have more weight than visitingprofessors to clearly criticize theadministration...
Thousand-year blocks of time enforce a chastening standard of weight and scale. The millennium has a gravitational pull that draws in the largest meanings, if only because its frame of reference is so enormous. The millennial drama represents nothing less than the ritual death and rebirth of history, one thousand-year epoch yielding to another. Such imponderable masses of time overwhelm and humble the individual life-span, reducing human tragedies and accomplishments to windblown powder...