Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handy chance for Senators to record themselves on whichever side seemed politically advisable-without voting on an actual bill. Said a disgusted newsman: "This is the damndest thing I ever saw. That bill hasn't got a chance and everybody knows it. Yet everybody's getting fat...
...campaigning for Lyndon Johnson, Connally had a good grasp of Texas politics and a long list of friends. Resigning as Secretary of the Navy, he flew home for an energetic 25,000-mile tour around the state this spring. Along the way, he picked up valuable business support, a fat campaign chest and the backing of most Texas newspapers. The result was 422,000 primary votes-or almost a third of the total...
...Fat. Ostensibly, the biggest obstacle is Britain's insistence that it cannot join unless the European nations agree to a long-term transitional period in which preferential tariffs for Commonwealth nations will be reduced by easy stages. As an opening gambit, Ted Heath offered for the first time to raise tariffs against the relatively small volume of manufactured goods Britain imports from the Commonwealth, then prepared to tackle the far more complex question of raw materials imports, many of which compete with commodities raised by former French African colonies that now receive preferential treatment as "associate" members...
...Switzerland-Britain would obviously challenge the present Franco-German dominance of the Common Market. With all those countries included, the result may be a "Big Europe," many Common Market partisans fear, bound by commercial rather than political ties and in danger (as Adenauer puts it) of "growing so fat that it bursts...
Past v. Present. The second Abomb, code-named Fat Man, was a 20-kiloton plutonium weapon even more devastating than the crude uranium device that leveled Hiroshima Aug. 6. Lobbed through a hole in the heavy clouds that blanketed Nagasaki that day, it burst 1,850 ft. above the city with a mighty blue and yellow fireball and five successive shock waves that prompted a ten-year-old's description: "I thought an airplane must have crashed into...