Word: fat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Take a Letter to Maria" was the only song in the concert that elicited a noticeable response from the Park Street train-waiters. A fat old wino leaning against the wall, waiting for the Ashmont train, swayed blissfully with the melody in oblivious appreciation, without opening his eyes or loosening the grip on his paper-bagged Gallo...
...Brook. Restaurants buy their own, mostly through regional cooperatives, though naturally the purchases must meet rigid headquarters specifications. The basic hamburger patty must be a machine-cut, 1.6-oz. chunk of "pure" beef - that is, no lungs, hearts, cereal, soybeans or other filler - with no more than 19% fat content, v. 30% for some competing ham burgers. The 3½-in.-wide bun must have a higher-than-normal sugar content for faster browning...
Craig Claiborne, publisher of a private food newsletter and former New York Times food critic: "The hamburgers are quite swallowable. There is a highly compatible onion flavor. The French fries are first-rate; they are made in fresh fat and are crisp. I do think they could put more pickle on the hamburger. Overall, I would rank them on a par with Howard Johnson's hamburgers...
Scrappy Scotsman. Still, Nixon Administration officials are nervous. A strike that ended in an inflationary settlement would set a bad precedent for next year. Despite the leadership's focus on noneconomic issues, some U.A.W. locals at all the Big Three companies are clamoring for fat wage increases...
More than anything else she wanted to be pretty. But in adolescence her complexion raged and she got fat. A lifelong obsession with personal ugli ness began. Unequal to the conventional standards of Southern femininity, Joplin decided to be its antithesis: she became one of the guys-palling around with boys who drank beer, listened to jazz, and tolerated her because she was willing to play court jester...