Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quoted an Arabic expression -"Illi fat mat" (the past is dead)-and recommended that negotiators be guided by it during the days of difficult bargaining ahead. Said Kissinger: "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights face each other. We are challenged by emotions so deeply felt that the tragic march from cataclysm to cataclysm sometimes seems preordained. Yet our presence here today is a symbol of rejection of this fatalistic view...
Worldwide, the shortage has sparked more of an exploration than a production upswing. Spurred on by voracious demand and fat prices, such oil giants as Exxon, Mobil and Texaco, along with a host of smaller firms, are scouring the earth from Malaysia to Newfoundland for fresh finds. Next month, activity in Peru's Amazon River jungle will reach boom tempo as Union Oil, Tenneco, Getty, Sun Oil, Transworld and other companies begin drilling for what many geologists believe is the world's largest unexplored oil deposit. The most promising recent strikes have been under the turbulent waters...
Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...
...indeed, the one vote last year affecting the city in which they came together as a bloc was against the city's interests, an effort to abolish proportional representation. This year's executive reorganization bill was resisted in part by Cambridge legislators who feared for their patronage powers, preferring fat, inefficient state agencies to less cumbersome ones...
...fully expect the worst from the fuel crisis, a stubbornly incandescent optimism has begun to shine through the gloom. People who lament the expected death of a comfortably affluent, energy-intensive way of life look forward to a rebirth of some old values. "We have become literally and figuratively fat," says William C. Westmoreland, the general who commanded U.S. forces in Viet Nam and now directs economic development for South Carolina. "Perhaps the crisis will bring us back to some of the virtues that made this country great, like thrift and the belief that waste is sinful." Says Sylvia Lavietes...