Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, City Council President Rudolph Halley saw a fat political opportunity: New York straphangers are presumed to be exceedingly touchy about their 10? fare. A seasoned TV performer (Kefauver committee counsel), Halley went on TV with a plan of his own: reject the Dewey plan, balance the budget by strict economy-a hollow plan with which Politician Impellitteri had toyed. Impellitteri, without any plan of his own beyond a determination not to bring up the subject of the subway fare, denounced the scheme as "Halley's folly...
...fight with the soldiers," and assembled the awesome army that wiped out General George Custer and soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. But 14 years later, conquered by the forces of the Great White Father, Sitting Bull was old, fat and quiet. One frosty morning in 1890, a detachment of Indian police galloped up to his cabin on the Sioux reservation in South Dakota and shot him to death...
Perfume & Frog Fat. Stalin rewarded the Hammer by showering his family with favors. Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls...
...provided good food in company restaurants at cheap prices. He talked with workers to get their gripes, often made shop addresses to keep them informed. In such talks Crawford likes to call the company "an Ol' Brown Hen," which will keep every body warm if they keep her fat and feathered...
...other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being called an "old heap of fat" by Stephania, goes on a rigorous diet. Only Stephania, misshapen and disappointed, must go back alone into the world, to try to win a place for herself...