Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over had felt the destiny that lay before her. The curly-haired baby Lilibet had caught their heart and their imagination almost from her birth. As time and unpredictable fortune brought her closer to the throne, Elizabeth had proved herself more & more qualified to occupy it. As a rather fat little girl, as an earnest and leggy Girl Guide, as a shy, devoted daughter whose only rebellion took the form of insisting on doing war work like other girls, as a princess in love, as a radiant bride and young mother, Elizabeth grew up before a public which closely watched...
...election gave Nehru another five years to try to solve India's eternal problems of poverty, sickness and famine. The Communists, with a beachhead in Parliament and the inimitable Communist talent for waxing fat on misery, will be standing by and hoping for failure. "This," observed a U.S. official in India, "is a problem with a five-year time fuse...
...fat contract the board had made was with the Landier Management Co. The company furnished 95% of the bus transportation for the schools, and in five years its gross revenue had jumped from $235,000 to more than $1,500,000. The thing about the company that bothered the jury was that one school board member, Roy J. Becker, and the husband of another board member, Mrs. Gertrude Rounsavelle, had been handling its insurance and had made themselves a tidy profit of about $8,000. Strictly speaking, their transactions were legal, but the grand jury accused Becker of misconduct...
...white-haired boy of the Paris art world is Bernard Buffet, a dour, 23-year-old recluse. His paintings are miserable in mood, dingy in color, austere in composition and lifeless in essence. Yet he sells almost everything he does, for fat prices-and rake-thin Artist Buffet paints upwards of 100 canvases a year...
Sponsor Philip Morris pays $30,000 a week for I Love Lucy, which gives Lucille and Desi a weekly income of $5,000 to $7,000. And Desilu is branching out to do TV commercials. "After all," observes Desi, "when we get too old or too fat to get in front of the cameras, we can always be producers...