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Word: fatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who lament high prices and openly declare . . . that rationing of any kind is not for them. Maybe they did get their dander up about rationing once before, but that was forced. This time it is voluntary, and the people who should know say that it will reduce the fat prices we have to pay now. . . . What in hell is wrong with our people that they won't cooperate, when it is to their own benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...knock a wall down the way Big Jim Allit can. Big Jim, a fat-cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Too Good | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Fat Guard Gets Chance...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...Penn captain looked about him, and his eye fixed on Bowser, a very fat guard. "Let's give Bowser a chance," he said, and Bowser was put in the backfield, while the team assured itself that his bountiful avoirdupois would cut through the Cantabs like a cleaver through soft butter...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...Removing excess fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Current Affairs Test | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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