Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated facts that he feels like taking a shower. Often, the picayune biography is an "authorized" work, written by a worshipping professor after the death of a great writer. Lytton Strachey anticipated Blotner's contribution to this genre more than fifty years ago when he remarked on "those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead...with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design...
...both colleges the Latin admissions were more encouraging. Harvard admitted about 15 per cent more Chicanos, and Radcliffe sent fat letters to twice as many students in the Latin category, which includes Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans...
...seventh inning, starters Tiant and Jim Palmer went to the showers and in the bleachers grown men began to take off their clothes. The streakers galvanized the bleachers by running from top to bottom. But in the left field stands a fat man with his shirt off drunkenly played the exhibitionist, puckishly pulling down his pants at various inspired moments. The fans booed when equally fat policemen swaggered over to curtail the brouhaha...
...News Presents. "You're Too Fat," an examination of lard in America. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...year's end, with the best of breaks: a letup in consumer demand caused by a business slowdown, a record crop this fall and an easing in petroleum prices. Even that less than comforting scenario, and similar ones projected in other nations, could go awry if labor unions force fat settlements. In the U.S., AFL-CIO President George Meany and other leaders are talking up a drive for wage and benefit boosts of 10% or more this year. Japanese unions are demanding an economy-wide wage increase of 30%, which would be sure to fuel that nation's raging inflation...