Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl...
...goulash Communism," he said, in effect, that it is easier to fight a revolution on a full belly than on an empty one. The Chinese, he sneered, want him to tell the Russian people: "The economy has been sufficiently developed. Let us produce less so as not to become fat and thereby grow like the bourgeoisie...
...well. For the privileged few with $3,500 Holland & Holland rifles and fat letters of credit, Africa is still the place for those snarling big cats and tawny skins to adorn a bare den wall. But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door...
...approach, he refused a presidential Cadillac in favor of his own Corvair; more significantly, Burnham centralized such operations as marketing, planning and styling, and eliminated more than 3,000 jobs. Last week, after stockholders at the annual meeting complained again about the management oversupply, Westinghouse announced the most dramatic fat-trim so far. Both Chairman Gwilym A. Price, 68, and Vice Chairman John K. Hodnette, 62, will retire. Taking over their duties-at a salary saving to the company of $288,-100 annually-will be Donald Burnham...
...carnival worth its kewpie dolls always has a House of Fun with a variety of distortion mirrors. In some you look fat and ugly and in others skinny and funny. The original subject is recognizable in both views, but it is the nature of the optical caricature that fascinates...