Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fat Volumes. Their fathers then settled down for serious briefings with their opposites in the Johnson Administration. Many of Nixon's appointees to the White House staff met their Johnson-era counterparts and chatted informally in the West Wing basement mess. At the State Department, the Cabinet-to-be and their wives met their own vis-avis socially. Then many of the Nixon nominees went to the incumbents' offices for lengthy discussion of their new responsibilities. They came away with fat briefing volumes prepared for them with part of the $900,000 that Congress authorized this year...
...October the nation's balance of trade stumbled into a $63 million deficit. Exports fell 20% from the September level. For all of 1968, the Commerce Department expects a trade surplus of scarcely $1 billion, in sharp contrast to last year's $4.1 billion and the fat $7 billion as recently...
Mashed potatoes (whiter than Snow White claims to be) in a rosebud border, green (with envy because they never get top billing) sugar peas plus a fat and sassy mushroom or two, French fried onion rings that speak for themselves, and a chopped green salad for your vitamin quotient...
More of everything-particularly 'big, rich, fat, square Christmas books-seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed...
Take Marcus Pendleton, the hero. He is, to be brutal about it, a fat slob. As Ustinov plays him, he slobbers, mumbles, stutters and swaggers. He is the kind of man who seems to have dandruff on his teeth. While the plot calls for Pendleton to pose as a computer expert and hitch up with an IBM-type operation to embezzle it out of millions, you know as soon as you see him that he'll be caught in the act. As a result, the fun is not in his attempted theft, but in what he does during his spare...