Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, The New Yorker Magazine has been either fat enough or finicky enough to indulge its stubborn allergy to Madison Avenue exaggeration in advertising. It takes such a stringent view of overstatement that it once rejected a testimonial touting a how-to-golf pamphlet which offered the duffer the utterly unnecessary suggestion that he "stay out of traps." Since Arnold Palmer had just lost the Masters tournament by landing in a trap, The New Yorker sent the copy back to the agency, along with the advice that the agency might consider sending Palmer a copy of the book...
...Paradox. Is this the true picture of China today? Not according to Communist films and propaganda. They show happy, husky children gamboling in village nurseries, smiling Kazakh herdsmen shearing fat sheep on the Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves...
...Communist world, as became clear at the 22nd Party Congress, setting itself up as the guide and model for the world's underdeveloped nations and claiming Marxism's true ideological heritage. Peking argues that under Khrushchev's anti-Stalin line, the Soviet Union has grown fat and bourgeois and lacks revolutionary zeal in dealing with the West. Red China has even announced that it will develop its own nuclear weapons and many in the West take the threat seriously...
...tung's decision was for industry, not man, for greater tension, not less. The sloganeers took over from the economists. Without iron and steel, they shouted, China is "like a fat man-all flesh and no bone and muscle." Did the farms need fertilizer? Crowed an official: "I think of the stomach of every man and animal as a small fertilizer factory...
...director and a partner in Cady, Roberts, telephoned his office and left a message for Gintel about the dividend reduction. For a few moments, Gintel was the only outsider with the news. Instinctively, he sold-and made for his clients and his wife's account a fat profit...