Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon, land promoters and dishonest public servants were waxing fat at the expense of the veterans and the taxpayers, with an ingenious racket. The racketeers 1) got options on land at market prices, 2) duped veterans into signing the necessary papers, 3) with the aid of crooked officials, got the land appraised at several times its actual worth, 4) put on pressure to get state loans on it, in the names of the bamboozled veterans, and 5) pocketed the profits made in the jacked-up prices for the land...
Egypt's pleasure-sated ex-King Farouk, most feckless monarch of modern times, celebrated the third anniversary of his dethronement by calling in Paris newsmen and weeping like a Nile crocodile over the plight of his former subjects. Blubbered fat, foolish Farouk, while sipping unloaded mineral water (booze was never one of his vices): "The revolution has turned into a tyrannical dictatorship. The army officers, the so-called 'liberators,' have become small despots. Egypt is now a police state and the Egyptians are a captive people...
...school's trustees to put aside $5,000 a year to buy livestock, and then sell it to the boys at cost. Then he and his students began experimenting with feed, found that the blemished cull potatoes discarded by farmers could provide, when dried, 90% of a fat steer's diet. So a whole new industry grew up in Kern County. Instead of paying $65 a ton for corn and $42 for barley, local farmers now had a good substitute for only...
...formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with bush-happy prospectors with fat bankrolls and big appetites for excitement. Job seekers, claim speculators, boomers arrived on every train, sifted in through the fire escapes of the Harmonic Hotel to bed down in bathtubs and corridors after all the rooms were taken...
Pancho Lopez (Lalo Guerrero; Real), a parody in a Mexican accent that originated on the West Coast, has sold more than 200,000 records: Born in Chihuahua in 1903 On a serape out under a tree, He was so fat he could almost not see, He could eat 12 tacos when he was only three ! Pancho, Pancho Lopez, the pride of old Mexico...