Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich men of the discredited Wafd party. The twelve-man Revolutionary Council was falling apart, whispered the rumormongers; its leaders were quarreling, its officers were selling out to the British. The brush-fire spread of the talk worried the men who 14 months ago wrested Egypt from the fat hands of King Farouk, for ruling Egypt is like riding a bicycle: keep rolling or you fall off. One night last week, the twelve officers went together to Cairo's jam-packed Liberation Square, climbed a white balcony bathed in spotlights and, before 100,000 Egyptians, clasped hands and held...
...claimed Will Durant's attention first. But last week, sitting in his comfortable Hollywood home, just a step from his own swimming pool, successful Historian Durant scribbled away, well beyond the halfway mark, at the job he marked out for himself in 1912. The Renaissance is the fifth fat volume in Will Durant's story of civilization, and like its predecessor volumes it is a highly readable and informative popular survey...
...fat capons, boiled or maybe
...rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference, the President decided to summon John Foster Dulles to Denver for a full report and consultation (see above...
Lean Butter. To recapture some of the butter market lost to margarine, a group of officials of the Iowa Department of Agriculture will soon begin selling a butter called Dairy Spread, which is made of non-fat dry milk and 58% butter fat (v. 80% and more in regulation butter). The spread will be marketed by Dairy Foods Co., a Nashua, law firm set up by the Agriculture men. Price: about 20? a lb. cheaper than ordinary butter...