Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the open prison door they found a fat Sternist with thin red hair, lazily cracking fried watermelon seeds between his teeth. When a prison warden barred their entrance, the journalists appealed to the Sternist. He ushered them in and rounded up some fellow prisoners for a press conference. Prison guards fretfully pleaded that this was against regulations. Some prisoners crossed the square and returned with bottles of cold beer for their friends; they used the handle of the jail door as a bottle opener...
...Carter, widowed mother of three, worked for four years to isolate from the red cells of Rh-positive blood some substance that distinguishes it from Rh-negative blood. At last she got a "lipid" (fat-like compound) which she believes to be a "hapten" (a neutralizer of antibodies). Injected into a pregnant woman whose Rh-negative blood has formed antibodies against the incompatible blood of her unborn Rh-positive baby, hapten protects the baby's blood, and allows him to be born in normal health. Injected into a living but erythroblastic baby, it quickly restores the baby...
...hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
...true that he had had offers for his paper. Shrewd businessman Agusti, onetime bitter enemy of the Peróns, replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...
...emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...