Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fat and Ugly. Sally's hard-earned transformation began after a small part in a high school production of Meet Me in St. Louis. Hooked on the stage, she enrolled in acting classes with Jeff Corey, a respected character actor (Seconds, Little Big Man) and an exceptional teacher. "He really brought me out of myself for the first time in my life," she says. Corey's classes got her stage roles in Moon for the Misbegotten, and An Enemy of the People. Equally important, her cousin David Bennett, a fellow Corey student, appointed himself her unofficial protector...
...into a ghetto apartment. He ballooned up to 235 Ibs., so he went to a neighborhood Police Athletic League gym to pare off some weight. There he came under the paternal eye of a sometime fight manager named Yancey Durham, who recalls that Joe looked just like any other fat boy. One thing, however, was different: "He had determination...
Dioxin occurs as an impurity in Orange, the principal herbicide used in Vietnam. Its potential importance lies in the fact that it is exceedingly toxic, may be quite stable in the environment, and, being fat soluble, may be concentrated as it moves up the food chain into the human diet. Very rough model calculations suggest that it is not impossible that significant amounts of dioxin are entering the Vietnamese diet...
...between his 56th and 57th tour victories had many of Arnie's Army worried that their hero, at 41, might be over the hill. Many observers felt that golf's most exciting pro had become too fat financially, too comfortable for the rugged grind of the tour. Palmer may have shared some of their concern: since New Year's he has not had a cigarette or a drink. The quiet life and concentration on his game have obviously paid off. "I haven't felt this good in 20 years," he crowed after the tournament...
...Middle School, Dai writes, had been taught to believe in dramatic solutions. Drenched in Maoist doctrine since birth, they had no use for original thought. "All we cared about was implementation and results." Getting results could just as easily mean dealing with counter-revolutionaries as with raising the pig-fat production quota. In fact, the "struggle" technique was the same for both-a sort of continuing pep rally, or ideological mass rape, during which all opposition is drowned in slogans, charges and insults...