Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precepts of life in official Washington, Congress should have reacted to a bureaucrat named Hervé L'Heureux like a fat man trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag...
...that the last the world would see of the raddled bird? Far from it. As the Communists well knew, given a quick laundering, a brush, and a few weeks to grow its feathers back, the peace dove would look as fat and fair as ever to the party faithful and to people of short memory...
...Here I stood in the Harvard Yard, lousy with Ivy and tradition, when the whole picture was ruined--a couple of strange creatures came waddling along. Radcliffe girls are horrible. They have hairy legs and fat fannies and shouldn't be allowed in the Yard...
...blinds, shut tight all day against the Riviera sun, snapped open. A bustle of servants and bodyguards on the second floor of Cannes' Carlton Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied...
Rashin had not been hit by U.N. planes for more than a year. Since Aug. 12, 1950 Rashin had been forbidden to U.N. flyers because it is only 17 miles from the narrow strip of Soviet-Korean frontier (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Rashin had grown fat on its year of immunity...