Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been faithfully waiting in the rain. Miffed as he was, he said he was still going to vote for the President. If the President hurried along, he had reasons; he was heading for bigger pickings at dinner in Los Angeles. To join him at the table, California fat cats shelled out even more than the New Yorkers-a cool $ 1.7 million. Bob Hope was on hand with bipartisan gibes: "Jack Benny is a Republican for Mc-Govern-but only until he gets the $1,000" and "McGovern called his own headquarters, and Clark MacGregor answered the phone." Nixon sounded...
...Crimson offense, working the complicated Restic system for the first time under game conditions, did not look particularly sharp. The offense in general looked sluggish and a little confused and made virtually no use of the pass. It was evident that the Yardlings, burdened with a fat playbook and unfamiliarity with each other, were feeling their...
...roll 100 years ago, the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce refused to endorse the sobriquet "hot dog." They thought it might evoke notions of processed mongrel. Today the public has less fanciful worries. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, since 1937 the frankfurter has gone from 19% fat and 19.6% protein to 28% fat and only 11.7% protein. (The rest is water, salt, spices and preservatives.) This deterioration is yet another of technology's ambiguous gifts...
...wiener may also contain "binders," like dried milk, cereal or starchy vegetable flour. According to Consumers Union, there can also be occasional insect parts and rodent hairs. Moreover, frankfurters are no longer a bargain. There is little honest protein in even the purest of all-beef kosher franks. Discarding fat, water, etc., what protein remains comes to more than $10 per pound. For that you can get truffles. Or 4 Ibs. of filet mignon. Or 8 Ibs. of hamburger...
Harvard looked fat for about five more minutes, and then the end began on the arm of UMass quarterback Peil Pennington. Getting good field position (an advantage UMass enjoyed more often than not) when Harvard's Jim Stoekel was forced to punt from his own 20 against a strong wind. Pennington proceeded to destroy Harvard's secondary...