Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have always felt that pigeons were fat and predatory birds, not above sneaking a peanut out from under an innocent squirrel to benefit their position in life. Anyone who has seen a group of pigeons strutting in front of a public building must realize that their motives are not entirely innocent; more than that, pigeons have not shown the same concern for their human masters as have other animals. When was the last time a pigeon rescued a small child from drowning? When was the last time a pigeon's cries awakend the prostrate occupants of a gas-filled room...
...Women are supposed to have a greater proportion of body fat than men, but available data do not confirm any difference, let alone measure...
Bodegas & Charms. In the Barrio (i.e., district), the Puerto Ricans have created their own city. The store signs are in Spanish. At the bodegas (grocery stores) they sell green coconuts, chick peas and mangoes. The carnecerias (butcher shops) sell Spanish sausage, salt pork fat, chicken feet (3 Ibs. for 25?) and salted pigs' tails...
...Degrees of starvation cannot be measured by loss of weight. As the body burns up its own stored fat it begins to store water instead, causing edema (waterlogged swelling), so that starving people may have chubby faces...
Instead, the market turned as contrary as a razorback hog. Without any Government supports whatever, and in spite of the huge supply, pork prices started to climb, and kept right on climbing. By last week Chicago hogs were at $20.25, a fat $4.05 above the old support level...