Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's Fat Girl...
...United States only if material reward were substituted for the sense of moral satisfaction the Briton gets from service to the Crown. British scientists leave the ivory tower because they feel a personal obligation. But in the country, too few top scientists are willing to exchange faculty salaries and fat industrial consultation fees for a chance to buck Washington's frustrating bureaucracy. More money spent to lure top-notch civilians into scientific administration would mean fewer costly errors and a much-strengthened system of national defense...
More than 100,000 Spaniards dug out faded blue shirts and jaunty red berets last week, and traveled in wheezing trucks, buses and trains into Madrid. They carried food in paper bags, and their fat wineskins gurgled. Along silent streets, devoid of trappings or large 'crowds, thousands of them marched in units to the capital's big soccer stadium. Only there, with fluttering banners, the blare of martial music and the thud of boots, did it seem at all like the old days. Veterans of the Blue Division sported Nazi -Iron Crosses on their chests. The huge crowd...
...house from a mountain spring. "If Ed could only see how close the water is to the house," she said. "When Ed was home, the water was up on the hill and we had to carry it down." She moved back into the kitchen and tossed a fat slab of sausage into the frying pan. "We're gonna put on the big pot and the little one too. Keith Marrs is gonna bake a fruit cake-Ed loves fruit cake. We'll have fried chicken with lots of gravy. Ed likes soup beans, too; we'll have...
...carcass (shrunk to 653 Ibs. in transit) is not all salable at the 42½? a Ib. the butcher pays for it. Two-thirds is hamburger and other low-priced meats that the butcher must sell for less than his cost; nearly one-fourth is bone, suet and fat, which must be stripped from the carcass, and brings the butcher little when sold. Only 260 Ibs. are steaks and roasts, and their prices must be high enough to make up for all the losses on the fat and cheap meats...