Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make real fine cowboys...
...novel is a lot of fun, but it is hard to make a real hero emerge from a blizzard of custard pies; Kingsley Amis (One Fat Englishman), scored better in the U.S. Besides, not many native readers will share the conviction that American activities are inherently comic because they are un-English...
Throughout the South, Democratic organizations that have grown fat and feckless on one-party power are being rattled by Republican challenge. The G.O.P. threat to Georgia's statehouse is proving so formidable that Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge, regarded as unbeatable in his state, announced last week that he would run for another term as Governor "if the people of Georgia desire...
Honoré de Balzac did not look or act like a writer, and the literary assessors of his time declined to treat him as one. He was short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt...
Changes of Mood. General Motors' troubles and Wall Street's gyrations crystalized a distinct change of mood on the part of the American people. For 62 fat months, prosperity has fed itself because Americans have spent, lent, borrowed and invested with confidence. They have felt correctly that jobs, production, profits and paychecks would continue to go up and up. Now, uncertainty has replaced confidence with disconcerting suddenness, giving rise to a number of disturbing questions. Is the boom over? Is the long postwar bull market finished? Does the nation face recession, or inflation, or perhaps both...