Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGovern's airing of his financial laundry was meant to be a backhanded swipe at Front-Runner Ed Muskie. In a statement now much publicized by McGovern's forces, Muskie this January admitted he would "be out of the race" if he unveiled the identity of his fat cats. The reason, of course, is that many large contributors simply do not want their names publicized, and would contribute no more if identified. But the McGovern camp does not discourage the inference that Muskie relies on tainted dollars to support his campaign...
...fat Chinese storekeepers...
...might be called "the Fat Jap Syndrome," in honor of Spiro Agnew's jocular question aboard a campaign plane in 1968, when he observed Baltimore Sun Reporter Gene Oishi asleep in his seat and inquired, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" What was intended as bluff bonhomie immediately appeared to be racial callousness...
...grew up in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. His father, who changed the family name from Rafsky in the mid-'30s, was Jay Irving, a modestly successful cartoonist who drew covers for Collier's magazine and a comic strip called Pottsy-about a fat, amiable policeman-for the New York Daily News. The elder Irving was fascinated by cops and filled the apartment on West End Avenue with police memorabilia...
...problem, according to Dr. John H. Wulsin of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is simple gravity. "The fibrous attachments which support the breast," says Wulsin, "stretch under the influence of gravity, more so in some women than in others, and especially in those breasts naturally large or fat or pregnant or lactating...