Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jolly Fat People. Members who have lost ten pounds receive "graduation" brooches or tie clips after 16 weeks in the program, thereafter earn a little diamond chip for every additional ten pounds lost. Since friendships develop at the meetings, members often see each other between sessions, urge each other on with the catch phrase "See you lighter...
Founder of Weight Watchers Inc. is Jean Nidetch, 43, a New York City housewife who in 1963 weighed 214 lbs., but still found herself cheating on her reducing diet. She invited six fat friends over to talk about it, came out of the gathering convinced that group therapy was the answer. She has since slimmed down to 142 lbs. (her husband Marty has gone from 265 lbs. to 196 lbs.), and she estimates that 500,000 members in 16 states have lost more than 10 million lbs. since she established Weight Watchers...
When last week's polling began, there seemed a very good chance that the regime of Sir Albert Margai might indeed be voted down. The Prime Minister, whose hulking size and frequent outbursts of temper have won him the nickname "Akpata"-a Mende word that means "our wild fat man"-had long been accused of widespread corruption. His refusal to answer the charges did nothing to improve his government's image, nor did his longstanding attempts to establish a one-party state. Last month, Sir Albert opened the election campaign by refusing to allow opposition candidates...
...dependence on Government contracts, which now account for more than 95% of its business. Though space and Pentagon orders have swollen annual sales beyond $2 billion for the past three years, in 1965 the company lost its No. 1 spot to rival Boeing, which also happened to be fat with commercial orders. If and when the supersonic-transport program gets under way, North American will assemble wing sections for the prime contractor (Boeing again), but so far its only sizable commercial airframe business is building Sabreliner corporate jets...
...months of preparation were over. Gerald W. Blakeley Jr. of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had underwritten the Boston tour with a fat $25,000 check. The Sing-Out Kids had finished their tour of the Caribbean and their assault on New York and Yale. Heikki Lampela had secured the sponsorship and the theatre. The Belmont housewives and the high school kids and the old men and women and the Harvard and Radcliffe students had run the gauntlet of picketers carrying signs reading "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Sing Away Your Sickness with a Right-Wing Melody." They were...