Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance is true to his reputation as a brawler. Short, thick-chested, with a graying mass of Brillo for hair, he looks like an aging welter-weight. He throws sentences like punches, clipped, hard, sometimes below the belt--not surprising for a writer who churned out 20,000 words about a one-round Liston-Patterson fight and who has himself gone ten rounds with Jose Torres. Yet when others use boxing metaphors, he winces, demanding a better performance; the image, he implies, is his own thing, and indeed, when he cups his hands, leans forward, and drops one like "Maybe...
...escalation of the war "without full public discussion has led many people into resignation and despair about the possibility of affecting our policy." If this majority could only understand its own strength-see the numbers in its ranks-it would overcome that sense of impotence. It would bring its weight to bear-through the electoral process, if necessary, in 1968-to alter the direction of our present policy. Instead of continuing escalation, increasing bombing and troop commitments, it would call for de-escalation, leading to negotiations and eventoal disengagement. The thrust of its criticism would be that the Administration...
...illustrious member of the audience said, Hathaway's Fidelio "had its moments" especially in the long second act finale. On the whole, however, the forces assembled at Sanders had to cope with so much music of such weight and difficulty that they had little chance to do anything with their parts but get through them. Much of the performance was simply dutiful and at times even boring. Beethoven's exquisite score certainly deserves more than that--that is, more than even the best undergraduate musicians are capable of giving it under the circumstances of extracurricular music at Harvard...
...World Wars, for the U.N. in Korea. Canadian soldiers have served in every U.N. peace-keeping mission except West New Guinea, and Canada is still a member of the ectoplasmic International Control Commission in Viet Nam. But despite its diplomatic aspirations, Canada carries little real weight in international affairs. It has never greatly antagonized anyone in the world-nor greatly influenced anyone, either...
...last four cup winners,* Intrepid is not a particularly graceful-looking boat. With a bobbed bow and a truncated stern, she is only 64 ft. long overall, 45 ft. at the waterline, compared with 68 ft. and 46 ft. for Columbia and Constellation. An obvious advantage is weight; Stephens figures that he saved more than 60 Ibs. on the shorter bow alone. What's more, says Stephens, without the usual heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing in rough seas around the Cup course off Newport...