Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grease the Guillotine." He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: "Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow." It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying...
...second day wore on, one man jumped into the water, was washed away and disappeared. But finally, in mid-afternoon-35 hours and three sips of water after they had boarded the rafts-they saw salvation: a fat-bellied Navy Privateer patrol bomber roared overhead and began to circle...
...service job that paid 300 pesos ($90) a month. He picked up another 900 pesos as lawyer for the railway workers' unions. Colonel Peron, as Secretary of Labor & Social Welfare, hired Bramuglia as an adviser. Soon he was deep in poli tics. In 1945, he landed in the fat post of Governor of Buenos Aires. The next year, when Peron became President, he made Juan Bramuglia his Foreign Minister...
...their enterprise, Fish, Pipeline President Williams and the group of original promoters already had a fat paper profit. To start, they had put up $11,600,000 in all, for 1,610,000 shares of common stock, thus getting it at $7.20 a share. As the rest of the common stock which was sold went for $10 a share, they already had a paper profit of close to $4.5 million...
...years in the U.S., Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer decided that its people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...