Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obtained the documents only after issuing an agency summons, which carries the weight of a court subpoena...
...addition to this third place finish, Cole just missed qualifying for the NCAA Championships at 134 lbs., which was the tournament's toughest weight class...
...first and second place winners in every weight class qualified, and six of the ten third place winners were selected as wildcards by the coaches...
...simply this overt partisan assault that created the backlash. According to Faludi, women came to condemn the movement because they heard from messengers they trusted that it was responsible for their pain. When the source of attack claims neutrality, offers statistics, cites an expert, the message carries even more weight...
Guns have a sort of irresistible black magic about them. A good gun has such lovely heft, a densely sinister weight in the hand. The brain is wired to the trigger finger and fires on impulse. The finger twitches, and -- blam! -- the life across a distance -- poof! -- disintegrates: an existence powdered. The finger did it on a whim. The desacralization of life, a society of emotional disconnection: killing is a kind of dream-sequence video. Conscience is disconnected from trigger finger. Child is disconnected from future. Bullet is ; disconnected from gun muzzle and, once fired, can never be recalled...