Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fat Pigs. Things at home were fine. "You know, the Nicaraguan has a tremendous heart. If you do something for him, you can lead him around by the nose. If I tell one of these that I'll give him a pig if he'll fatten ten pigs for me, I'll come back and find one pig fat and the rest skinny. So I tell these guys that I'll give 'em a pig, but don't tell them which one. Then all the pigs are fat...
...construct a fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...Santa Anita, in a ground fog that hid the field from sight part way down the back stretch, Kentucky-owned Old Rockport came from behind to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. The most exciting thing about Old Rockport's victory: his mutuel price, a fat...
Criss Cross is further brightened by some excellent supporting performances. The best are Stephen McNally's detective, Dan Duryea as a sarcastic thug who seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely...
...Moines heard about Rupert's problem, and offered his good offices. Fox and his wife took over, and put Rupert on a diet to" thin him down to 1,200 Ibs. They had a theory that he was so "overfitted" that his sexual hormones were lost in his fat...