Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were the raucous curses of a fat Kentucky harridan and the horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where men and women of good will and good sense prevailed, the difficult, tradition-shattering, inevitable change moved...
...resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live on fat inheritances. A few are reportedly involved in genuine cloak-and-dagger plotting under the command of Yuri N. Paparov, who is cultural attaché of the suspiciously oversized (200 staff members) Soviet embassy in Mexico City, and reputedly the working boss of all active Communists in Mexico...
...tone of your latest report on civil rights and Senator Russell. You almost, but never quite stated the South's case. It is simply this: strangers who are both totally ignorant of, and completely unsympathetic toward our society simply must keep their big, wide mouths and their big, fat paws out of our personal problems if we are ever to solve them...
...year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free-enterprising West Germany than in Socialist Sweden or Denmark...
...check with another bad check. The operator draws funds from Bank A on a phony check written on Bank B; then another phony check is written for deposit in Bank B to cover the original check. In the interval before the checks clear, the check kiter gets a fat bankroll. But to elude detection, the kiter must always beat the outstanding bad check to the bank and make it good with another bad one. It also helps to have a top bank officer in on the deal to hold off bad checks if the timing misfires, and to initial...