Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently published volume of euphoria titled The Happy Life of a Doctor, Boston's Dr. Roger I. Lee, 75, past president of the A.M.A., propounded the happy thought that a fat man loves all the world. Wrote the portly doctor, whose own weight is "top secret" (estimate: over 275 Ibs.): "I do not mind being jumped upon by some hideous . . . painted Jezebel who shrilly proclaims that her weight is perfect and who looks upon my rotund figure with abhorrence . . . What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck...
Canapés & Cholesterol. Whenever Groover found cholesterol danger signs in a patient, he put him on strict diet and exercise. Of nearly 100 men in this category, 75% were thus restored to normal cholesterol levels. But some of the men developed high levels of cholesterol and lipoproteins (fat compounds containing cholesterol) even under the strict regimen...
...Hall is undoubtedly the best chairman the Republicans have had in a generation: shrewd and eupeptic, confident about his political knowledge. He planned the famous "Salute to Ike" dinners, bringing a fat $4,000,000 into the party's 1956 war chest, then spent half that buying up expensive "prime time" on TV. He never swerved from his conviction that Ike would run again despite heart attack and ileitis operation, thus preventing a unity fracturing scramble for delegate votes. His candidate won by a landslide, but his party failed to capture Congress...
...back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little mouths. The middle class, instead of disappearing, has waxed fat and happy...
...Blood. Particularly in the Díaz version, the story has the nature of a dream landscape described by someone who had all his senses about him. Its quality is indicated in passages as stern and unsentimental as a death sentence: "We dressed our wounds with grease of a fat Indian we had killed, for we had no oil, and had a good supper on some of the dogs they breed to eat. The houses were deserted and the food had been carried off ... but during the night [the dogs] returned to their houses and we snatched them with relish...