Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle of Man, Gaitskell's problems seemed weightier than ever...
...Weightier commentators see the status war as containing grave national dangers. Fortnight ago London's Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
...roughly the feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...
...what is potentially one of the government's most effective weapons in the battle now being waged for civil rights in the United States. His rationalization for accepting and then declining the job is lamentably weak: "I permitted my desire to be of use . . . to blind me to the weightier harmful effects of possible lowering of respect for the federal judiciary...
...even weightier reason," Tierney explained dryly, "is the conflict of interest arising from such employment of members of our organization." For the first time in Hudson County history, it looked as if many politicians will be left to their own devices and/or speechless at election time...