Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from keeping the fat cats as happy as they can be in the welfare state, Strauss will have a powerful voice in the development of the nuclear reactor program. Presumably, he is well-qualified for such an assignment, but his overweening predilections for privately financed reactors will not encourage those who conceive of atomic power as potentially beneficial to all the people, rather than the property of a small group of financiers. In some cases, of course, private development is both an economical and an advantageous proposition. Strauss, however, is overly prone to give private capital priority...
...sold a luncheon of 100 fat-cat Southern Californians-Movie Mogul Sam Goldwyn, Movie Monarch Clark Gable, et al.-on stepping up campaign contributions, thus won more TV time. From California to Chicago he warmly endorsed and posed with G.O.P. candidates, signed autographs, turned on pep talks to groups of G.O.P. precinct workers...
...room apartment in Milan and crammed it with antiques she picked up all over the world. She travels now with a maid, a secretary and 30 pieces of luggage, into which she crams 70 pairs of shoes, 50 dresses and five mink coats. She indulges herself in jewelry-necklaces, fat rings, pearl and diamond earrings-and she plans to buy a big American...
...when Holly has the "mean reds," as she calls the deep blues, and shudders at thoughts of "the fat woman," as she calls death, she likes to cab past Tiffany's and "breakfast" on its jeweled serenity, or else crawl out on her fire escape with her cat and sing "Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures...
...television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate...