Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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embassy residence in Vienna. Out of the residence door, like a broncobuster sprung from his chute, bounded John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He dashed down the steps to meet his bald, fat guest. "How are you?" he asked smilingly. "I'm glad to see you." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev grinned politely and shook Kennedy's hand. Thus, one cold, wet day last week, the youthful leader of the Western alliance greeted the tough leader of world Communism...
...common citizens to report to him with any official who asked for a bribe; officials were so chastened that for the first time in years service was rendered citizens without the usual greasing of palms. Said a Teheran lawyer: "An empty pocket now holds as much power as a fat purse...
Graham R. Smith '63 reported that he was attacked by a "fat guy," evidently not a student, during a three cornered battle in front of Hayes Hickford's. The attacker come out of a crowd of on-lookers while Smith was engaged in a "clean fight" with another man and proceeded to hit Smith over the head and back with...
Only a Frenchman with an anesthetized palate would dream of setting out on an auto trip without a fat little red book nestled in his glove compartment-the Guide Michelin, France's gastronomical bible, maker and breaker of restaurant reputations from Paris to the Pyrenees. But in the U.S., tourists tend to take better care of their cars than of their stomachs. Four years ago, the dietetically neutral Socony Mobil Oil Co. joined forces with the Simon & Schuster publishing company in a venture to reduce the U.S.'s highway heartburn: a seven-volume domestic imitation ($1 a volume...
...size 44 belt, and that seemed like enough. But at Field's request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around, and headed for his pig farm in Frankfort, Ind. Said Marshall Field fondly: "He is one of the really great editors of our time...