Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of earning a reputation as "that fat character with guts," Ricketts began his daily column, did so well that the paper offered him a steady job after his Army discharge. Today the Pacific Stars and Stripes is inclined to view its civilian entertainment editor much as the New York Yankees view Slugger Mickey Mantle-although the paper pays him only $7,600 a year plus a cost-of-living allowance...
...books and concealing a pair of White officers dying of boredom. The Cossacks frustrate Davidov's best efforts with peasant slyness, cheerful inefficiency and occasional open rebellion. When he does get a field mowed, the hay is promptly stolen by farmers from a neighboring collective run by a fat and crafty Ukrainian. And, for once in a Soviet novel, a girl proves more lovable than a tractor: lush, hot-eyed Lukeria soon shows Davidov that there are better uses for a meadow than grazing cattle...
...with a theatrical nourish denied the grubby Red policemen he killed. Even the hussy, Lukeria, though she has debauched several commissars and given aid to the Whites, does not come to the expected bad end. Kicked out of the collective, she moves to a nearby city and becomes the fat, contented and prosperous wife of a mining engineer...
Handcuffs & Guards. G.E. has already demoted, shifted or cut the pay of 48 employees involved in the antitrust violations, including 16 who were indicted. Several of the G.E. men indicted who drew fat salaries ranging from $60,000 to $125,000 have had their salaries cut as much as $50,000. But G.E. made no move at all to discipline its most important figure in the trial: Vice President Ginn, head of G.E.'s important turbine-generator department at a salary of $125,000 a year. G.E.'s lame reason: Ginn's illegal activities in the transformer...
...disturbing aspects of the tragedy is the condescension that has seeped to the surface in the West. A glance at the topical political cartoons will show the score: the Congolese are stereotyped as fat, thick-lipped cannibals, running around with bones through their noses and cauldrons in the background...