Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years the only rules change for the lightweights has been to raise the weight limit five pounds, so that now when the little men weigh in an hour before game time, they must tip the scales at 155 pounds. For reasons of convenience and de-emphasis, the league prohibits spring practice and does not allow competition to begin until the second week in October...
...most reliable lineman that Kelley has is a solid 200-pound center from Yonkers, N.Y., Mike Reilly. Next to Reilly, Kelley has a pair of senior guards, Bill Harris from Tarentum, Pa., and reconverted tackle Bill Klaess from Rockville Center, N.Y. Both boys weigh 195 pounds...
...return with jeers and indifference. The prospect of making a decision, even en principe, threw the Assembly into a tizzy. Party lines unraveled like old hawsers. In the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, said one who was present, "there was so much grappling with souls that you could weigh them." But the tocsin summoned the Deputies, and, in a mood that one French newspaper called "obvious resignation and embarrassment," they assembled for the showdown...
...Eakins," Whitman once opined, "is not a painter, he is a force." To criticisms of Eakins' portrayal, Whitman retorted: "It is likely to be only the unusual person who can enjoy such a picture-only here and there one who can weigh and measure it according to its own philosophy. Eakins would not be appreciated by ... professional elects: the people who like Eakins best are the people who have no art prejudices to interpose...
...special session of the U.S. Senate-only the common sense and alerted conscience of the American people -can justly weigh one sober charge against Senator Joseph McCarthy. The charge is: more deeply than any living American, he has hurt his country's chances to rally the peoples of Europe against Communism...