Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentille because everyone else is gentil. All those beautiful people. All those beautiful presents. Gentil, so gentil, everyone is gentil, and they say I merit it ... The only one in all the world that I can get angry with is myself-because I'm so fat...
Johnson also wanted the Senators to know that the famed $13 billion muscle-without-fat budget for 1949-50 was imposed on him by the President. "I was sick about it. My choice was to try to make that thing work or resign." But looking back, he refused to admit that the $13 billion budget was a mistake, though the services had originally asked for $30 billion. In fact, Johnson lectured the Senators, they should worry even now that the services "will ask you for more stuff than is necessary for the safety of America ... I am concerned still that...
...Congress Party is a sprawling conglomeration of Indian factions whose great aim, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, was Indian independence. Once that aim was achieved, it found itself without a unifying purpose. It grew fat and lazy, today harbors many timeserving officeholders, not a few black-marketeers. Nehru, only a middling politician, lacks the skill to hold the crumbling structure together. He bothers little about the party machine, does not even know the names of provincial leaders...
...upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim at least $5 billion of fat out of its nonwar expenditures, in order to make the budget balance even with the smaller tax yield...
...Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper, had just marveled: "I met you 31 years ago and you still aren't fat!" "I hope," he added, "I shall never be." But when he asked his table companion to "say a few kind words - can you?", Paulette Goddard obliged with just two: "I'm hungry...