Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thin men fight off cold by shivering, while their chubby brothers relax behind insulating layers of fat, said two Army researchers, Dr. Farrington Daniels Jr. and Paul Baker. Volunteer subjects, wearing nothing but shorts, sat in a 60° room for two hours. The fat men kept their internal body temperatures normal, although their skin temperatures dropped. The thin men maintained higher skin readings, partly by drawing on the body's internal heat supply, partly by shivering more. The shivering was accompanied by increased oxygen consumption, as the thin men burned more food to keep warm...
...French Air Force Dakota touched down one day last week at the Royal Air Force fighter base of Biggin Hill, near London. Out stepped a tired-looking Frenchman with a fat diplomatic briefcase. Pierre Mendès-France, Premier of France, was familiar with Biggin Hill: under very different circumstances he had visited it during World War II, as a navigator in a Free French bomber squadron...
Davy was delighted to have something to play with. He whistled to the baby, and never tired of inspecting it. "You got some good fat on you, baby," he said. Harry named the baby Edward, "after the King," but Davy called it Rover...
...Plays the Double Bass (Victor). Out of the wayward past (1929) comes the echo of Conductor Koussevitzky's first love, the bull fiddle. In these six pieces (three of them his own compositions), the instrument sounds like a husky cello, dark and sentimental, and it moves like a fat man on a dance floor, bulky but often surprisingly graceful...
...fat ones, the lean ones ; the mean kind dirty clean) all except the green ones