Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good luck to you and Finance Director Smith in eliminating the "fat" at the University. Lars G. Sandberg Assistant Professor of Economics
...enigma proposing, on one hand, something for almost everybody, and on the other hand, moves to gobble up our economic resources and dull the will of private enterprise." In the same vein, Republican Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana described the budget as "guns, butter, and a lot of fat...
...Gardner was president of Carnegie, living in a modest home in Scarsdale, N.Y., just four doors down from another philanthropoid-Dean Rusk, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Gardner usually came home with a fat briefcase, went to work soon after dinner. Checka recalls that "when we were children, we always went to sleep to the sound of a typewriter." Gardner made a point of placing his desk "right in the traffic pattern for everything in the house" so as not to miss anything...
...thin enough to walk between the drops." Dumas the younger, who knew Sarah well because she appeared for years in his Lady of the Camellias and made wads of money for both of them, once said, "You know, she's such a liar, she may even be fat...
...Charles [the candidate], on the basis of his own keen analysis of Austria before Dollfuss. The hours I've spent listening to that chucklehead outline a strategy which would be just swell if only Consolo [the incumbent governor] were Franz Josef!...I'd rather spend my time chewing the fat with One-Eyed Danny Geegan of the Police Athletic League. At least I'm sure we got his vote. For all I know charming Elli [the professor's wife] wrote in one for Leopold Figl...