Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mardi Gras" is just a French phrase that means "Martedi Grosso" in Italian. That's too bad, because it comes out "Fat Tuesday" any you look...
Thanks to the farm lobby and the flabby generosity of the U.S. Congress in its worship of the farm vote, U.S. potato growers were in the fat and the whole farm program was in the fire. The Department of Agriculture, set to administering a law it didn't like, had ordered potato acreage cut-but growers had simply moved their potato rows closer together, poured on the fertilizer and grown more spuds per acre. By pegging potato support prices high (currently at a top of $1.80 to $2.40 a hundredweight), the U.S. Government was stuck with 50 million bushels...
...tariffs high while preaching free trade to the world; his prejudice against fighting side by side with converts from Marxism, whom Burnham (a convert from Marxism) regards as the most knowing scouts in that fight; his readiness to trade with his Communist enemies any time he can make a fat profit...
...good, the black-tied judges at indoor track meets look very, very good, but when they are bad-as they were two weeks ago, at the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Garden-they look horrid. At the Wanamaker tape the photofinish crew took a picture that showed several fat official rumps blocking the camera's view of the cat's-whisker finish between Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt. The judges, relying on their own eyes, deadlocked 2 to 2, and Chief Judge Asa Bushnell, voting himself, declared Gehrmann the winner...
...whole story in a chivalrous conspiracy to help Cinderella. Their fellow conspirators include birds, an amiable barnyard nag and a hound named Bruno, who is clearly a close relative of Pluto. Other new characters: a monocled, silly-ass grand duke and the villainous Lucifer, a spoiled, airily arrogant fat...