Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battalion commander. Major John Eisenhower met the plane, but reminded his father of an old infantry tradition: a good officer eats holiday dinners with his men. He would stay until Thanksgiving afternoon, said the major. He bundled his wife Barbara, their three children and Skunky, their fat, aging Scotty, aboard. The Columbine took off for Augusta and the new "Little White House...
Surprise. Then the Trib pulled a surprise. Instead of coming out with its full morning edition, fat with ads that other struck papers could not print, the Trib ran 2,000,000 copies of an eight-page paper with no ads at all, "in order to give the widest possible distribution to the day's basic news." There was another reason for the thin paper that had little to do with distributing the day's basic news. The Trib, though not directly involved in the strike, actually had as much to lose as any of the struck papers...
...thin, whitening hair that still shows streaks of blond. A Great Russian by race, he has the shoulders of a Stakhanovite (he was once a coal miner), the broad buttocks and high cheekbones of a Slav peasant. Bureaucratic life has covered Khrushchev's frame with an overlay of fat, but one of the few Western diplomats who have met him recently reported last week that he is "rosy and energetic: a man with a lot of bounce...
...generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...
...find that each seat is numbered to assure you ample space," the pamphlet goes on, and one can be sure that this accommodation is particularly appealing to a rich, fat, old Eli alumnus...