Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress appropriated a record peacetime $96 billion, while individual Congressmen tried, usually in vain, to whittle down expenditures. Most of this whittling was haphazard slashing in the hope that it would strike fat, not muscle; Congress knew that it could not really understand the vast and complex budgets of the administrative departments...
...manager, the councilmen and other officials sat down on the stage. One Bob Rowe, a middle-aged postal clerk who wildly opposes the city government, rose and said: "It will be proved that Munjoy Hill has been neglected." He heckled persistently. Finally the crowd cried: "Sit down." But a fat man named William Holland was cheered when he rose, knocking a fellow citizen's hat awry, and teed off on the city manager...
Three days later, in Iraq (Iran's sparsely populated but oil-fat neighbor), more anti-British demands were announced. Premier Nuri es-Said requested "revision" of a 1930 treaty which grants the British two air bases in Iraq, along the air route to India. Nuri has a reputation as an old friend of England, and his demands were diplomatically made, but even he assumed the proper anti-British posture. There was a reason: Egypt, the strongest Arab nation, had arranged through the Arab League for Iraq to follow Egypt's lead...
Ruiz Cortínez' friends say that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...
...Like a Heathen God." They spent much of the evening looking at portraits of Bernard's ancestors. One was "a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon . . . My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly ... He was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark ... but I mean to find...