Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin's blustering Joseph McCarthy, and the Senate's big caucus room was packed to capacity. A short, mild-looking man with a scraggly sandy mustache, Professor (Johns Hopkins) Lattimore settled himself down at the microphones at one end of a T-shaped table, plumped down a fat, 42-page statement in front of him, adjusted his spectacles. Then he fixed a cold eye on his accuser, who smiled indulgently on him from the ranks of distinguished visitors behind the committee table...
...Champs Elysées a pert little streetwalker, old enough to remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...
...easily achieved. The Greeks did it consistently, but few moderns care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...
...always thought of the U.S. embassy as a rest home for weary U.S. diplomats or a testing ground for fledglings. Steinhardt fitted neither pattern. He was a successful Wall Street lawyer, a heavy contributor to Democratic campaigns, whom Franklin Roosevelt first rewarded with the ministry to Sweden. No mere fat cat, hard-driving Laurence Steinhardt immersed himself in his job, soon became a virtual career ambassador in one hot spot after another...
...some other rulers (notably Venezuela's and Peru's), the Salvadoran bosses kept their promise. This week, in its first democratic election in almost 20 years, the tiny republic voted for a new President and Congress. Though final results might not be known for a month, short, fat Major Oscar Osorio, 39, was almost certain to win the presidency. Osorio's middle-of-the-road Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática (PRUD) was likely to gain most of the congressional seats...