Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansan Fulbright cried, is "fat and immobile," apparently forgetting Little Rock's sinewy revolt against the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. And although he did not doubt that the U.S. would meet the challenges of missiles and satellites, he thought that the real solution lay in "a true revival of learning . . . We should reform our basic ideas about elementary and secondary education. We must emphasize the rigorous training of the intellect rather than the gentle cultivation of the personality, which has been so popular in recent years . . . Courses in life adjustment and coed cooking will...
...General Motors President Harlow Curtice to attend the convention, and debate the new proposals and Reuther's position that the only thing wrong with the country economically is "a serious imbalance" between expanded productive power and lagging purchasing power-correctible in U.A.W.'s case by signing a fat new contract. But Curtice wrote that he could "make our position clear without a personal appearance." The nation, said Curtice, is afraid U.A.W. will make wage demands not "tailored to the economic facts of life." As a start toward restoring public confidence, Curtice asked U.A.W. to renew its present...
...putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long ago by the late Colonel Bertie McCormick and still pushed by the Tribune...
...explained that the committee may find no need for such a post and conclude that the Police and Fire departments could remedy the situation. Or, he suggested, it may find a need for the appointment of "someone who has not waxed fat on Civil Service, an ex-F.B.I. man or Marine sergeant who could whip some discipline into the police...
When the patient is unconscious or anesthetized and a doctor wants to give a quick-acting injection in a hurry, he often has trouble (especially in the very young and very fat) in finding a vein. The answer, said British Anesthetist John Bullough in last week's Lancet, is to make the injection into the tongue. A few drugs cannot be administered in this way because they cause irritation, but most give no trouble and are absorbed in about a minute...