Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicate headed by Chase Manhattan Bank. Last week Ramadier himself introduced a $285 million government bond issue on terms so generous that it will cost the government $20 million a year in interest and bonuses, and investors lucky enough to hold the first bonds retired stand to earn a fat 15% on their money...
...year post at Denver's BMH Synagogue. The company, said Gershon, had misrepresented its cookies as containing only vegetable shortening and Gershon had endorsed their sale by the synagogue's Women's League. When the cookies turned out to have been made with 20% animal fat, hundreds of Denver Jews found that they had violated the dietary laws of their faith, angrily forced Rabbi Gershon's dismissal...
...Admire. In the beginning, when Nasser's Free Officers overthrew corrupt and fat King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty...
...tried for 15 years to whip this problem of obesity . . . I've been on banana diets and eaten red meat. I've taken pills and bought reducing belts. I've read books and attended lectures, joined clubs and enrolled in courses. But I'm still fat ... I need help...
First, one must see that fat is sin ("We fatties are the only people on earth who can weigh our sin"). Second, one must accept God not as a terrible judge but as one "who loves you and wants to be your friend." Pastor Shedd, 41, recommends that his fat readers pray God to show them to themselves as they really are, to show them what he wants them to be, and to show them why they eat too much. "Teach me to face my hidden self," he prayed. "Open the windows of my subconscious closets and let in your...