Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge called the issue of unemployment crucial, and attacked what he called "discrimination" in the allocation of federal space contracts to Massachusetts. He claimed that Massachusetts receives only one per cent of all funds for space, while fat contracts are given to Southern states whose Senators are the chairmen of key Congressional committees...
Morey's work was reviewed by the CRIMSON last spring as "the least sophisticated show ever produced at Harvard big, fat fluffhall...
...spite of all that memorableness, there's an awful lot of fat on this double tchin. Sidney Michaels, its perpetrator, pretends to have "based" his work on a play by Francois Billetdoux (French for Frank Mashnote). Billetdoux did not confuse ambiguity with vagueness and confusion--something Michaels has very conveniently managed to do. The third act, in particular, is a mess. Leighton and Quinn have renounced their money (are completely destitute, in fact), have no place to go and nothing to do (they aren't even married), yet Michaels seems to think he has achieved some sort of brilliantly whimsical...
...Ranked Diplomats. Tunnel 59, the escape route for 59 refugees before it had to be closed last month because of flooding (TIME, Sept. 28), was not organized by the fat operator, but it, too, had its shady aspects. It was built by the voluntary labor of West German and foreign university students, and reportedly financed, among others, by NBC-TV in return for film rights. According to a widespread report in Berlin, on which NBC refuses to comment, the financing was arranged through intermediaries, two Italians and a German, who paid out what was necessary for equipment and supplies...
Striking back, he arrested scores of Ghanaians, including three of his top aides: Information Minister Tawia Ada-mafio, Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Convention People's Party Chief H. H. Cofie-Crabbe. In fat headlines, his controlled press demanded DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. The Evening News even printed their pictures upside down, an omen of doom in West Africa, and Nkrumah's supporters burned effigies of the three in coffins. From all over Ghana came tribesmen who sought to exorcise the evil spirits plaguing Osagyefo by offering him concoctions of yams and eggs, sprinkling sheep's blood...