Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday by eight and in the living room, waiting, by nine. He sat in the hazardous old armchair and mediated upon the telephone. It reminded him of something biological; what? Yes, that picture in his tenth-grade biology book. A whole lot of snaky little cells and some great fat black ones. What the hell were those cells, anyway? Jesus, Martin thought. I can't remember anything any more. But it doesn't make any difference. Whatever that little one is, it sure looks comfortable lying up there-right in the groove." I mean, a gross...
THEN, strangely, the big fat black cell rang...
...April, the President sold 185,891 shares he had held in Fisher's Island, Inc., a land-development firm near Miami. Selling at $2 a share, the President doubled his original investment. With his White House salary, and what he saved from the fat years as a corporate attorney in New York, Richard Nixon is reasonably well off. And, of course, all the interest he pays on his holdings is deductible from his personal income taxes. His only real estate problem seems to be that, whenever the Nixons move into a neighborhood, they drive property values...
...Labor force. Fuller wage data is compiled only yearly, if that often, and it does not cover fringe benefits. No figures at all are collected on the pay of state or local government employees, although they make up a growing segment of the work force, and have won especially fat gains this year...
...costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor is a long, savory inside joke. It is not, however, malicious, Amado too plainly believes that he lives in God's country. He may even be trying to provide some benevolent fat deity with a narrative blueprint for his own future return...