Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every need: food, water, cigarettes, paper and pen. These they provided in abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five a day: two in the morning, then lunch, a hefty afternoon snack, and finally dinner. "Tumtum one of the Khmers said, slapping my fat stomach. Then, slapping his own rock-hard middle, he boasted, "Kampuchea, tut-tut." Kampuchea means Cambodia in Khmer...
...Americans were offered the same, and accepted. He made no such offer to the flustered Chinese, but used the only Chinese words he knew: "Kung Hei Fat Choy [Happy New Year]," even though that celebration will come in January. It broke up the Chinese. As they giggled wildly, the Aeroflot engineer, still smiling, added in English: "you bastards...
...year's negotiations. Proclaiming a "crisis in costs," he declared that "we must restore the balance that has been lost between wages and productivity. We must receive the fair day's work for which we pay the fair day's wage." The companies also insist that fat pensions for all 30-year employees would be prohibitively expensive, probably doubling G.M.'s annual pension costs of $255 million...
...partial to sentimental operettas like Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow, and made pilgrimages to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. He scorned Herman Goring's zest for the hunt: "Today when anybody with a fat belly can safely shoot the animal down from a distance." Though he loved the Bavarian Alps, he found mountain climbers and skiers ridiculous. "If I had my way I'd forbid these sports, with all the accidents people have doing them," he once said. "But of course the mountain troops draw their recruits from such fools...
...world nonverbally through her four acute senses. Fascinated by attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized crab meat, and leather, "a taste here not of the meat or the fat next to the hide but of the fur once outside it and of seaweed iodine...