Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their first visit to grandfather's new house. One fine afternoon they played on the back lawn under the budding magnolias. When the photographers arrived, David obligingly lifted Skunky, the family's portly Scotty, for a moment, but had to give it up. "She's too fat," he puffed. Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather's golfing divots...
...face that Moscow turned to the world this week was, except for the missing mustache, disconcertingly the same-fat, inscrutable, steelyeyed. Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov and his fellow heirs to the proletarian kingdom of Joseph Stalin had stepped into power with every outward sign of unity...
Across the U.S. last week, more people than ever were bulging with excess fat-and ready to admit it. Forty-five percent of the women said so in a Gallup poll, 25% of the men. (Not that men are really slimmer, say doctors; they are just slower to face the fat facts.) By their own say-so, the overweight add up to a whopping 34 million-or a good many more than the 25 million figure which has sometimes been accepted as a rough estimate by life insurance companies...
Homeless ticks drifting slowly toward the smell of food are rather pathetic creatures, but once they have pushed their barbed beaks deep into blood-rich flesh, they grow fat, conservative and greedy...
Like his famed humorist father, Will Rogers Jr., 40, has tried his hand at many things. The year his father died, he gave up polo playing and, at 23, bought the Beverly Hills weekly Citizen. He turned it into a fat (20-42 pages), successful, community semiweekly, whose four editions now have more than 40,000 readers. He was elected to Congress, and during World War II, quit politics to become an artillery officer. Last year he tried his hand at the movies, played his father in The Story of Will Rogers...