Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that fat high school students are discriminated against by teachers and college interviewers...
...result, a fat high school girl has one-third less chance of getting into college than her thin classmate. Although overweight boys face the same problem, their chances are slightly better...
Mayer explained that the more marked discrimination against fat girls is probably the result of current styles of clothing which makes obesity more apparent in females than in males...
Before the OSS sent her to Asia, Julia was in Washington, D.C., where she struggled valiantly with a hot plate, only succeeded in "splashing chicken fat all over the walls." Back home after the war, she enrolled in a Los Angeles cooking school to prepare for her marriage-with disastrous results: her bearnaise sauce congealed because she used lard instead of butter; her calves' brains in red wine fell apart; her well-larded wild duck set the oven on fire-she had completely forgotten to put it in a pan. Says Husband Paul gallantly: "I was willing...
Part of the newly strong financial position of Hollywood is due to an old nemesis-TV. It was TV, coupled with a 1948 Supreme Court action which ultimately caused the studios to divest themselves of theater chains, that put the skids under the movies' fat years. Attendance in 1946, 1947 and 1948 was at an alltime high of 90 million a week; by 1958 it had plummeted to 40 million. Since then it has slowly climbed to 46 million; that was not enough. But TV had discovered movies, and suddenly the storehouse of old films was the studios...