Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks and loan companies to cover them...
...Albanian rulers of Egypt and overlords of the Ottoman Empire did little else to benefit mankind, they were identified with some of the most beautiful women in the world. Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's fat Farouk and onetime Empress of Iran, was one. Dark-eyed Princess Zehra Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen...
When he was five ("a fat little boy with a regular foghorn voice," recalls a cousin), the family moved to Blanchard, Wash., 70 miles north of Seattle, where his father (who died two years ago) became a locomotive engineer in a logging camp. Ethel Murrow, now nearing 80, was a frugal, hard-working Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination...
...vacationers had vanished, and the juke joints along the shore looked ready to be boarded up. In the little village of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., only the Long Pond Inn showed signs of life. There the champ's camp followers-boxing writers soaking up free drink, ex-athletes gone fat in the jowls, the kind of women who get their names tattooed on sailors-swapped yarns as they waited for Sugar Ray Robinson, middleweight champion of the world...
...more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke ground for its new steam plant, whose 17-story boiler-house will be the highest building in Wyoming...