Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines' severance from the U. S. in 1946. His salary will jump from $9,000 to $18,000 (plus fat perquisites...
...Actually, he is the inventor of a naval war game which the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. rates more efficient than its own, and which Landlubber Pratt and enthusiasts play weekly on the floor of his big Manhattan studio. Between battles, Player Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style, alternating with simple, forceful exposition, make history's dull spots lively, its blind spots clear to many a layman. If, as some charge, he prefers the exciting but doubtful facts to the sound but dull, even grudging critics admit that in The Navy: A History...
Month ago the U. S. War Department planked out $25,009,388 for a whopping rush order of airplane engines. To Allison Engineering Co., a newcomer in high-powered aeronautics, went the fattest slice: $15,080,261. Old-established Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Pratt & Whitney (already fat with Army contracts) came off second and a poor third (Wright: $8,975,317; Pratt & Whitney $953,810). Reason: Army men favored the Allison 1,200-h.p. engine (TIME, Jan. 30), whose twelve inline cylinders, snug as a whippet's ears, made it the last word in streamlined high-output power...
There is little midnight sun or everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls...
...halfheartedness about the men as each one proceeded to hack away an enormous portion for himself. Little by little a powerful odour pervaded the whole hut. . . . [Others] were cutting up, carving, drinking large handfuls of sticky blood, shouting, licking their fingers, masticating, swallowing, stuffing themselves with meat and fat, sucking at fragments of intestine. . . . Men, women and children alike were besmeared with purplish blood." Author Victor ate a little piece too, found it "sharp, spicy...