Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight thickening of the innermost layer of the arterial tubing. This stage is marked by an increase in the amount of mucoprotein (sugar protein), by fibrous growths of long, flat cells, and by breaks in the elastic tissue fibers. At this stage there is usually no cholesterol or other fat in the artery walls...
...second stage is marked by a further accumulation of sugar protein and the formation of hard, fibrous plaques in the walls, and fat (sometimes cholesterol) is always present. Finally, in far-advanced arteriosclerosis, parts of the artery wall become hard and glassy looking. Often there are deposits of calcium. And large globules of fat (including cholesterol) help to narrow the arterial tube so that the blood slows down and may form a dangerous or fatal clot...
...only as a prosperous, well-tailored manufacturer of ladies' coats and dresses, who lived in a ranch-type home on Long Island, had a daughter at Vassar and a son who had gone into the Air Force from West Point. He could always be counted on for a fat block of tickets to such eminently respectable affairs as the dinner for the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Fund. Socially he had impressed one federal judge as "an agreeable little man who rarely said anything...
...rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights or races. Once, after a well-wisher introduced him to an English duchess and told him that she had "married three titles," Cannon answered: "So what? So did Mrs. Henry Armstrong...
...best character in The Happy Time is the lovable dissolute, Uncle Louie, played by Curt Klasner. Louie is a lazy, shaggy fat man who drinks wine out of a water cooler. He is hilarious as the stooge in Desmond's description of how to snatch a chorus girl's garter. Perpetually half-drunk, his arm wrapped affectionately around his water cooler, Uncle Louie steals every scene he stumbles into...