Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fat Prize. Schönefeld officials are trying to boost traffic further by persuading some West European carriers to use the airport's expanded facilities. Since the end of World War II, air service to West Berlin has been the exclusive preserve of the occupying powers' designated airlines: Pan American, British European Airways and Air France. The run has been a particularly rich prize for Pan Am. The line's Boeing 727s log 96 flights a day in winter and 117 in summer-usually with more than two-thirds of their seats filled...
...York City voice that, according to Norman Mailer, "could boil the fat off a taxi driver's neck," Bella complains that "the U.S. House of Representatives has the distinction of being the most unrepresentative body...
...sandy beaches. This coastline enhances transcendental (as opposed to commercial) values. Says Banham: "A man needs only what he stands up in-usually a pair of frayed shorts and sunglasses." In contrast are the foothills, where grand houses perch precariously on steep, lush gardens, the perfect incubators of the "fat life" of affluence and privacy...
...slim, fey, slightly bland youth of 18, living a sheltered life surrounded by tutors and priests. He progresses through the series like a prefab castle, adding pounds and psychological dimensions as if they were rooms. By the final segment, the slender, shy youth has become a man swathed in fat, so overbearing and overburdened that he can barely rise from his chair-much less to his earlier level of greatness. Michell won England's equivalent of the Emmy for his fascinating character study of the complex king...
...Germans, has the Führer in a fishing boat with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mussolini. Chamberlain puts out a line, patiently lights a pipe, and within two hours has landed a respectable catch. Mussolini jumps into the water and grabs a fat pike. Hitler orders the pond drained. As the fish flop about helplessly on the bottom, Chamberlain asks Hitler: "Why don't you scoop them up?" Hitler replies: "They have to beg me first...