Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extricated Friends. The most notorious of this greedy breed is a musclebound ex-butcher nicknamed Der Dicke (Fat Boy). A former black marketeer with many contacts in East Berlin, he got into the tunnel business for almost altruistic reasons-he wanted to help East Berlin friends to escape. While making inquiries about tools and equipment, Der Dicke made the happy discovery that hundreds of West Berlin university students were eager to help him for nothing. On his very first try, he lined up three engineering students who also had friends wishing to escape to the West. Once they had broken...
...being ''killed,'' the trees are partially stripped of bark and dressed in leaf skirts like women. Six weeks later, the trunks are split open to collect and eat the finger-size beetle grubs that have grown inside them. Without these grubs, which are full of fat and considered delicious, no Asmat religious operation can hope to be successful...
...acrimonious" meeting at Orleansville, where Boumedienne argued bitterly against the deal made with Wilaya 4 just as he was at the point of breaking through the rebel defenses. The regular army, he declared, was being cheated of its triumphal entry into Algiers, where his officers anticipated fat political jobs and his men dreamed of the soft garrison life. Boumedienne got his way, and this week, grinning broadly, he headed for Algiers in a green Land Rover at the head of a token force of 4,000 army regulars, who will remain as a part of the city's garrison...
Austrian Empire's Maria Theresa thaler-known to Arabs simply as "the Fat Lady." First minted in 1751, Maria Theresa thalers (pronounced tah-ler) were carried to the Middle East by Austrian traders...
...stop coining thalers, thus leaving the Vienna mint as the sole source. The move delighted Austrian bankers, who sell new thalers for $1.04 apiece and make an 8? profit on each one. To the bankers' even greater delight, the Vienna mint hopes to increase its output of Fat Ladies from about 1,000,000 this year...