Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. A rich, arrogant British libertine comes to an Eastern university town to renew his affair with a faculty wife, is hilariously thwarted and discomfited at every turn by the colonials he scorns...
...unusual batch of fine literary comedies: ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. A rich, arrogant British libertine comes to an Eastern university town to renew his affair with a faculty wife, is thwarted and discomfited at every turn by the colonials he scorns...
...rabbits in Minnesota seem to have little to do with the food supply. When the cycle approaches its peak, rabbits begin to die in horrible convulsions, with wild leaps and running movements. Their corpses are well nourished and show no signs of epidemic disease. But their internal organs are fat-clogged, degenerated and damaged by hemorrhages. Overcrowding seems somehow to upset the rabbits' pituitary and adrenal glands, causing their abnormal secretions to trigger a long chain of fatal troubles...
...conviction gladly but without surprise. He has a dignified, three-album-a-year contract with Columbia Records, his quartet could get bookings 52 weeks a year, and his present tour of Europe is almost a sell-out in 20 cities from Helsinki to Milan. In his first fat year, Monk earned $50,000, and on checks as well as autograph books he signs his grand name grandly, like a man drawing a bird...
...join the electric toothbrush and the powered swizzle stick, the U.S. appliance industry could use an automatic head scratcher-for itself. It has just enjoyed three fat years, and now, with delight bordering on disbelief, is facing a fourth. Last week, closing their books on 1963 sales and pulling together first reports for 1964, appliance manufacturers reported that sales of machines that cool, clean, cook and entertain rose 7% last year, to $9 billion, and last month ran 10% ahead of the previous January. Demand seems to be increasing faster than ever...