Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guards stood outside the locked door of Room 1202-"The Delegate Control Center"-where trusted Scranton aides worked diligently by phone to shake out new delegate strength. At their disposal were three separate and expertly cross-referenced filing systems, including boxes of index cards, fat black notebooks and large manila envelopes, all packed with vital information on each of 1,308 delegates, 1,308 alternates, and dozens of key politicians. Inherited from Nelson Rockefeller, the files contained names, ages, financial background, marital status, business contacts, clubs, fraternities, presidential preference, and the names of friends or associates who might...
While Sawyer's Hamlet is uneven, it is nonetheless an impressive start. Properly sporting a beard (which many Hamlets neglect), he looks right for the part, although I have yet to see the fat Hamlet that Shakespeare himself specified. His performance is a great improvement over the one that Fritz Weaver wheezed his way through on this same stage...
...automatically backed the rightists in Laos and elsewhere and assumed neutralism was immoral. But the neutralists have come a long way, too, and no one embodies this fact better than Kong Le. The gritty, grinning captain of paratroopers had fought for almost a decade in jungle and mountains, while fat cats in the cities grew fatter on U.S. and Communist aid; yet never had he known whom or what he was fighting or defending. "You have to give a man something to live for," he said, "before you can ask him to die." To the tough paratrooper, as to most...
...might be done through increased trade, added Sir Alec. "I have persisted in my view, put rather crudely perhaps, that a fat Communist is to be preferred to a thin Communist...
Conversations with Spirits. At the age of 57, after seeing a vision of Christ, Swedenborg abandoned his secular pursuits for theology, and his religious writings run to 30 fat volumes. His thinking was decidedly un-Lutheran. Rejecting the traditional doctrine of the Trinity, he taught that Christ alone was God. Man, he argued, was not saved by faith alone, as Luther taught, but by seeking natural perfection through service to the world. Swedenborg had almost daily visions of heaven and hell, which he described at great length in his theological writings. He also wrote of his frequent conversations with spirits...