Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curriculum. Although the prospects for next year show a greater number of courses in the field, the English Department has no program to offer comparable to that of a number of other colleges, notably Iowa and Stanford. At Stanford, for example, there is a creative writing "center", with fat scholarships for young writers, and, perhaps more important, a respect for writing as an integral component in the work of the University...
...domain with the shrewd joviality of Falstaff and the hearty acumen of David Harum. He looks like the jolly personification of the sun at midday. He achieved and holds his zenith because of a deceptive appearance of innocence (his favorite description of himself: "I'm just a big, fat country boy"), almost inexhaustible energy, and a congenital talent for politicking...
...technically runs the town is City Manager Perry Cookingham. The first time the city manager went to see Roberts, the fat man told him: "All we want is the best government you can give us. If we think you're wrong, we'll tell you-on Page One." The last time Cookingham saw Roberts was to tell him that another city had offered him a similar job at higher pay. The quick result: a boost from $18,000 to $25,000 for Manager Cookingham...
...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
...resignation reduced F. C. & B.'s commissions by about $1,800,000 a year, 20% of its total volume. Never before had any agency voluntarily given up such a fat account (one of the twelve largest in the U.S.). Foote's reasons were the same, and just as general, as those given a week before by George Washington Hill Jr. when he quit as American Tobacco's $230,000-a-year vice president in charge of advertising (TIME, March 29). Like Hill, Foote said he had resigned because of "general disagreement over policies...