Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuts, up to a point. Then they reluctantly conceded that civilian authority should prevail, and made speeches about how they had no desire to dislocate the economy. Many a Congressman and many a citizen had complacently said: "Well, the military always ask for more than they need." Cutting "fat" in the military budget was a popular sport in those days...
...voice at radio drama, playing the wife of Cinemactor James Stewart in an adaptation of the movie Jackpot on NBC's Screen Directors' Playhouse. Despite a few carping notices from critics who seemed to be angling for letters from the White House, Actress Truman (who earned a fat $2,000 fee for her debut) turned in a surprisingly competent performance, committed no fluffs. (Actor Stewart, who got second billing on the show, made three.) Asked about rumors of a possible movie career, Margaret Truman said cautiously that she wouldn't mind...
...days ago policemen prowled local roads eagerly hauling in drivers who did not have the new Massachusetts automobile inspection stickers. The penalty: a fat fine. Neither the policemen nor the courts which levied the fines seemed disturbed by the effectiveness of those stickers, but they should have been. For Massachusetts is stringently enforcing an inspection that is almost valueless...
Fustilarian was the word used by Falstaff to describe Hostess Quickly. It is "a comic formation based on fustilugs, and fustiluggery itself refers to fat and frowsiness, usually feminine. Fustilug [and] fus-tilarian certainly merit rediscovery . . . for application to a gross virago...
...afternoon. Also they didn't know when a Kuomintang officer would suddenly come along and drag them into the army, leaving their families to starve. (There is no military conscription at present.) I have gone to various villages, and although the little children often have dirty faces, they seem fat enough...