Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foremost, perhaps, is: "Throw away the skillet and the deep-fat fryer." Dr. Jordan's aversion (she calls it a phobia) to frying is that it incorporates the fat more securely in the basic food so that the stomach has to work harder to digest it. Another injunction has been dubbed "Nap and nip." Hard-pressed executives, Dr. Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner...
...home of Shoe Manufacturer Samuel Hurst, "a spade was a spade was a spade." Young Fannie was troubled by being fat, by being Jewish, above all by Mama, who was (as Author Hurst shows her in a striking portrait) vulgar, loud, socially ambitious, a woman young Fannie had to love and also had to get away from at any cost...
While a stocky, Bavarian appearance would not be unflattering to some, the Annex should present the lean with the fat. The sister institution has rarely been distinguished for her sylphs, and if the consumption of eclairs is to go unchecked, many facilities, such as seating plans and pathways, will have to be redesigned...
Hank Aaron, perhaps the Brave most feared by the Yankee staff, struck out, opening the 10th. Joe Adcock ripped a single to center and the fat was on the fire...
...brawling district of "Jews, Irish and Irish." Charlie made up for small size with pugnacity, endurance, and indifference to pain. Recalls his brother Edward, a Philadelphia clothing distributor: "Charlie walked around with mumps for two weeks and never knew it. People kept telling my mother how healthy he looked, fat face...