Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such displays of wealth were enough to breed doubt in some of the faithful. A few followers went to the district attorney. Last week Tom Patten, a strapping, 218-lb. six-footer with a toothy grin and a fat face, was on trial in Alameda County Courthouse charged with mulcting some of his flock of $20,000. One of the shaken believers, an unemployed food caterer named George Lewis, told the jury how he had parted with more than $10,000. "I'd go to a Patten meeting with my full pay ($125 a week) and come out with...
...Soviet Russia's hierarchy, the tightest concentration of naked power in the world, a short, fat man from the southern Ural steppes named Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov now stands just a level below the eminences where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov stand. He seems, in fact, to be pressing so hard on Comrade Number 2 that Western diplomats call him "Number...
Adenauer's case was somewhat strengthened by the fact that U.S. high officials in Germany had no advance knowledge of last week's French action. Cried one: "Now the fat is really in the fire...
Through the centuries, the hog has obligingly accommodated himself to man's changing tastes and needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally...
...first two days in Buenos Aires, Miller spent 12½ hours chewing the diplomatic fat with Peron. In fluent Spanish he told the President plainly that as long as his regime continued to whittle away civil liberties and chop down the independent press, close relations between the U.S. and Argentina would be difficult. Peron switched the subject to Communism and repeated his old phrase that Argentina would come to the aid of the U.S. in any war with Russia. "But Mr. President," replied Miller, "our problem right now is to prevent...