Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided that Editor Roy Howard was too conservative for his taste; he moved over to the New Dealing New York Post. "When I'm through here," he said glumly, "I'm through for good." In 1942, when the money-pinched Post slashed his fat salary, he quit, never again joined a daily newspaper, although he did free-lance work. Last week, at 76, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby died in his sleep at the Manhattan hotel where he lived...
Nationalists jeered. To the opposition's cry, "Go to the country" (i.e., call an election), they replied with insults. "Go back to Palestine," sneered a Nationalist backbencher at United Party Member Dr. Bernard Friedman. "Afrikaners have fed the Jews until they are fat, but the Jews repay us by biting the hand that feeds them...
...Obesity as people grow older, Nutrition Expert Dr. Josef Brozek told a Manhattan meeting of biologists, is the most devastating and widespread nutritional disorder in the U.S. today. Tests on 103 men showed that the average fellow consists of about 14% fat at the age of 20, eats his way up to 25% fat by the time he reaches 60. Dr. Brozek's advice: lop 7% from the 3,000 calories consumed daily for every decade after...
...France, no one who likes to eat and sleep well would think of setting out on an auto trip without a fat little red book in his pocket. The book: the Guide Michelin, maker and breaker of restaurant reputations all over France and one of the smartest promotion stunts ever dreamed...
...derivation of "ham" as applied to "h'amateur" actors in your article on Charles Laughton differs from what I believe to be the correct one. The oldtime minstrels used to apply ham-fat to their faces so that their burnt-cork makeup would be easier to remove. They thus became known as "ham-fatters," the word eventually being shortened to "ham," and used to designate any broad, slapstick performances such as those of the minstrels. Now, of course, it simply means bad acting...