Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henk was a brilliant student, and fired with the zeal of mission: the salvation of South Africa for its rightful owners, the Boers. Turning down a fat scholarship in Britain, he entered Stellenbosch University, the fountainhead of Afrikanerdom, and became South Africa's first Ph.D. in mass psychology. In 1927, he married Elizabeth Schoombee, a petite fellow student at Stellenbosch. In many ways, Betsie Verwoerd is as remarkable as her husband. Holder of an M.A. in education, she has borne him five boys and two girls-and brags that no black ever bathed them or put them...
...noise-hating has suddenly gone democratic. Whole communities are treating noise as a public problem. Cities are passing ordinances to control it. Sound engineers and acoustical experts are waxing fat fighting it. And a growing consensus holds that modern man must attack noise in the same way that he attacks the contamination of his air and water. "Noise pollution" is the latest thing to worry about...
...People, Achebe, a 35-year-old Lagos broadcasting official who is Nigeria's foremost writer, illuminates today's confused events along the opaque waters of the Niger. Life imitates art, but seldom so promptly on cue. Achebe's book sounds the obituary drums for "the fat-dripping, gummy, eat-and-let-eat regime" that history has extinguished, and makes clear why his still unstable nation should turn to military government. In fact, his novel ends with just such a military coup, the first of many, it seems...
...basically the description that Greenglass gave in his impounded testimony. Whether or not such knowledge was vital to Russian development of the bomb remains speculative. In any case, the same general principles are used in modern tactical atomic weapons, even though engineering refinements have gone drastically beyond the crude "Fat Man" version of 21 years...
...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...