Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, bubbling with mirth and his special prairie exaltation. Too often he loitered along the political byroads of America, gabbing and shaking hands and studying individual faces as if each were from the easel of Michelangelo. Of course, he lost the big elections. And he danced with all the fat old ladies in the union halls after the speeches and the first beers. When asked why he squandered the time and the energy, he explained that fat old ladies needed the attention and appreciated it the most. Besides, he said, it was his policy to spend as little time...
Still, there are losers even at orgies. An enormously fat woman has been sitting around in her underwear for hours, wanly looking for a man. "Swans fly with swans, ducks fly with ducks," a thin-faced young man says, glancing at her as we step around a writhing couple at the edge of the pool. Thin Face, who says he is a member of swing clubs in Chicago, San Francisco and Montreal, thinks Plato's should be more selective about people it lets in. "I mean head-wise, not body-wise," he says quickly. "Look at all those sightseers...
...thus had reason to expect that the doctor who gave him his annual physical would marvel at his fat-free midsection and low heart rate. Instead, the doctor seemed more interested in the results of Zarmunsky's laboratory tests, one of which showed the abnormal presence of protein, red blood cells and other substances in his urine. This condition can be an indication of nephritis, a potentially serious kidney disease. It can also be a sign of an apparently benign condition that is likely to become more common as increasing numbers of Americans take up jogging and running. When...
...newspaper every morning, there is an enduring mass of mourners for the lively, respectable Herald Tribune, which expired in 1966. Or so Publisher Leonard Saffir, 47, devoutly hopes. This week, to compete with the brassy Daily News and the New York Times, which he has dubbed "fat and stuffy," Saffir begins publishing a new Manhattan morning paper called the Trib...
...this scale proved unpleasant. "Actually, greasy food gives me indigestion. But which is worse, a little gas or two years in the army?" Dave said to me. In one month of gluttony--during which Dave commonly ate four and five meals a day--he added 25 pounds of fat. He took on the appearance of an overfed courtier, a modern-day George III, with his long curly black hair hanging on each side of a puffy, red-cheeked face. The real change, however, was going on inside...