Word: fat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harris said that 71 per cent of the American public would accept gasoline rationing as long as it were equitable--as long as the "fat cats" wouldn't benefit from high prices. But he said that the views held by a majority of Americans are not the positions President Nixon has advocated to solve the energy crisis...
...International was an old and esteemed ad agency when Edward N. Ney took charge as president and chief executive three years ago last week. Y & R was also, in its 48th year, just drowsy enough to have lost $40 million in billings in the previous 16 months and just fat enough to be carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in excess overhead. The agency needed reorganization. Ney brought in new business, pared the Madison Avenue head-office staff by 25%, and led the survivors in a quick-step cadence of work, work, work...
...This fat package is about several generations of Southerners, black and white, living on a plantation called Beulah Land (1820 to 1861 et seq.), the name being borrowed from a quotation in Isaiah. It tells of a land truly flowing with milk, honey-and miscegenation. The author has been a playwright (Next of Kin) as well as a minor novelist, and his dialogue demonstrates an admirable ability to leave out the unnecessary clutter that so often drowns sofa-stuffed historicals in sobs and expostulations. His descriptive powers, though, do not rise to such simple things as a squirrel hunt...
Handsome as an aging matinee idol, Aubrey was hired by Kerkorian in 1969 after four lean years as an independent Hollywood producer and five fat ones as president of the CBS television network. He lost the latter job reportedly as a result of a swinging personal life and a chilling heartlessness that earned him the nickname "the smiling cobra...
DONLEAVY IS MORE successful in populating the big city with a host of tortured and combatative New Yorkers. He prods his hero with encounters with nervous executives, diffident bums, desperate women, fat Mafia men, and seemingly ubiquitous subway perverts...