Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firmly grasping the coattails of the great man as he swept along to certain victory were the local candidates of his corruption-ridden party. Like U.S. politicians suddenly seeking to "get right with Lincoln" before Election Day, many Congress partisans, grown fat in office, forgot their bank rolls, their comfortable power and their American cars to recall the humility of Founding Father Mahatma Gandhi. Tailors in a dozen cities found themselves facing a run on khadi, the homespun cloth that Gandhi wore. Untouchables in village market squares were elbowed aside by candidates eager to drink at their untouchable wells. Some...
...Doren makes the right choice about his future in relation to his many TV offers, he might be able to convince some of us TV viewers that the acquisition of knowledge is a more rewarding and meaningful experience than spending 90% of our leisure time on our fat fannies being entertained by a large order of nothingness...
...Still, the reaction against Ike's budget was so widespread that some Democratic partisans were quick to suggest a considerable disenchantment with the President. In Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, a Denver weekly, Democratic Publisher Eugene Cervi crowed: "Big business and its willing handmaiden, the fat metropolitan dailies . . . loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill thought that "Mr. Eisenhower's usually sugar-sweet...
...said a big buyer of steel in Chicago last week, typifying the subtle change that has come over the buying policies of U.S. industry. Cautiously, manufacturers are beginning to whittle their inventories, living off the fat they built up in booming 1956. Now they are buying closer to production time, gearing production closer to sales, taking no chances on the possibility of overloading and bringing on an inventory recession such as hit business...
...close out several wings in the Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, some of which were to be equipped with F-104s. Yet Lockheed denies any cuts in planned F-104 production, reportedly has firm orders for hundreds of planes. Lockheed's commercial backlog is also fat with orders for Constellations and its new turboprop Electra airliner...