Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution and added: "All those who are in favor, please raise your right hand." When the hands went up they showed seven votes (Britain, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, U.S.) for; Yugoslavia against; India and Egypt not voting. (Later, India voted for. The government of Egypt's fat, foolish King Farouk instructed Fawzi Bey to vote against...
...broiling sun and let the mind wander [but] amid the joy over peace it is all too easy to forget that one has to do something to preserve peace. Today one can discuss [world affairs] at complete ease in a bathing suit on the beach or floating in a fat inner tube . . . Should excitable natures flare up during the discussion, there is a simple solution-jump in the water...
Like the Eiffel Tower. Today Picasso's own face is leathery, seamed and wrinkled, illuminated by big dark eyes which sometimes sparkle but more often stare off into the distance. He is old and fat, but still powerful: his chest and belly, bristling with white, goatlike hairs, are mahogany-tanned. At 68, he still dominates the whole canvas of modern...
Likeliest purpose of the arrests: another show trial, to provide scapegoats for Rumania's rapidly worsening internal situation. For beautiful Rumania continues to be bled white by its Russian masters and their puppets while most Rumanians (with the exception of fat Mother Pauker and the Communist hierarchy) live in deepening misery...
...truer there had been no genuine coffee shortage. In its sharply worded 44-page report, the committee blamed high prices chiefly on big Brazilian growers who, the committee said, had created a synthetic shortage by withholding huge stocks of coffee from the U.S. market. They had thus made fat profits through speculation in futures on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, the committee intimated...