Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fat & the Lean. The CAC officers fight a losing battle with combat commanders for transportation to move refugee supplies. Recently, when 17 tiny Japanese railway cars loaded with refugee supplies started north from Pusan, CAC officers almost danced...
Last week's recapture of Seoul-temporarily, at least-magnifies the refugee problem. A CAC executive said that although a few of the people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...
...after four days of indoor practice, how does the squad impress him? "Fat," be said. "But not for long...
...Argentine relations were worse last week than they had been in years. Washington had tried hard to understand the Peronista outlook; it had hoped that by using euphemisms for "dictator," granting fat loans and looking the other way when freedom and justice were violated, it could turn Juan Perón away from totalitarianism. But Washington was wrong...
...Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...