Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shut down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise, though, the pipeline seemed as unattainable as permanent...
...tones full of calm emotion, his music captivates, sounds as firmly rooted in earthy, American myth as Woody Guthrie, as evocative of restlessness and despair as early Dylan. And then he has to go and ruin it all with a reference to those "chiselers" who are "living off the fat of our great land...
Crimson coach Bill McCurdy, for one, has great respect for Merrick. "One thing is for sure, if Merrick is there and is all right, he's going to make a great big fat difference," he said...
MAYBE SEX AND politics can be mixed to produce literature and social commentary, but fat adventure stories about Washington, which always include the sex and the politics, can rarely be included in the categories of either social commentary or literature. Tom Wicker's Facing the Lions is Washington soap opera--not of literature or social commentary...
Sure enough, though she started out playing as cautiously as Riggs, King took her first service easily. While switching sides, Riggs, still cocky, gave Tennis Promoter Dick Butera 2-1 odds (putting up $10,000). He then ran his best streak of the night, winning seven straight points. The fat cats in the $100 front-row seats, bedecked with signs that read WHISKEY, WOMEN AND RIGGS and WHO NEEDS WOMEN?, sat back and gleefully awaited a rout. It came, but not in the fashion that they or almost anyone else expected. King moved swiftly to the attack. She drove Riggs...