Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was enough blame left over for unscrupulous home builders in major U.S. cities. Some builders have plied V.A. housing agents with gifts, thereby winning special consideration, unwarranted price increases or shortcuts on housing specifications. In the Washington, D.C. district, stated the committee, building costs have been inflated a fat 15% by the failure of housing officials to check on the real values of homes bought by veterans...
Lepeshinskaya and some of her colleagues also took an intensive series of soda-solution baths, with striking results: "Quick disappearance of fat, especially on the stomach; the resolution of old scars, and a general increase in fitness." She did not specify whether she had used washing soda, baking soda or some other sodium compound, but the professor warned that the baths should be taken only under a doctor's direction: there was evidence that the treatment could affect the red-corpuscle count of the blood. To doubting Western biologists, the whole theory sounded like nonsense...
Last week Stubby Cole won the nomination by a fat 13,000-vote margin...
...hard worker, never goes to the movies, rarely allows himself a weekend trip. Once, when he promised his two daughters (Patricia, 6, and Julie, 4) a picnic on a hot day, they wound up in his air-conditioned Senate office. Nixon just misses being handsome (he has fat cheeks and a duckbill nose), but he is what women call "nice-looking"; he gives an impression of earnest freshness...
...York cafe society likes them bar-worthy and it likes them rich. Fat little 22-year-old Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke qualifies on both counts. Mickey loves nightclubs, he is listed in the Social Register, and his father, Oleomargarine Magnate John Faris Jelke. of Chicago, has millions stashed away; Mickey himself is due to inherit a fortune when...