Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government sees that we get plenty to eat in Russia," said the stranger. "Just look at me. Fat steaks and juicy bones every day." "Then," cried the others in unison, "why in the world did you leave...
...them found some excuse for going back to the cool spots they had just left. Or others, like Johnny West and Carl Bottenfield, were eliminated for reasons beyond their control. Still others with brittle legs found themselves in hospitals. But most of them stayed on, were off fat, and beat the hell out of each other...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...library of an English manor house one rainy day this fall, a bony, white-haired priest in an oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter. From time to time he paused to knock the ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
Rose is at his best when he forgets that he is now a V.I.P. and just chews the fat. His most readable chapter, "Some of My Best Friends Are News," is a collection of sketches of wacks he has met between Broadway and the East River. Among them...