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Word: fatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only until an unbelievably huge woman heaved herself into the adjacent booth, gingerly followed by two relatively normal-sized girl friends. As they began talking, the two ordinary women grew more and more nervous. At the end of what must have been the thousandth disastrous Friday night of the fat girl's life, they compared notes about their dates. The seat began rocking violently like a small boat in a large storm as the fat girl became more and more agitated; in between gulps of food and drink she threw her body from side to side...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: After Midnight: Where Wild Things Go | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...process, one exercises almost all of the 434 skeletal muscles in the human body, which are in turn composed of 250 million muscle fibers that account for 40 per cent of the body weight of the typical American male. In his article, "Frequently Asked Questions About Muscle, Fat, and Exercise," Dr. Ellington Darden bluntly concludes "in the performance of most sports, muscles literally contribute everything, while fat contributes nothing...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Put Away Those Barbells | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...sweeping popularity of the Nautilus attests to its extraordinary efficiency in conditioning muscles and eliminating fat in a short workout. Anderson says, "If you went around these machines one after another for forty minutes you'd also get a good cardiovascular workout...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Put Away Those Barbells | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...minutes, tried to walk on, stopped, sat some more, walked another hundred yards or so, lay down on a rock, watched a middle aged fat man and his kids, all undoubtedly newly-arrived from Iowa in their shiny, sleep Winnebago, pass me by, bummed a beer from some longhairs heading down, slept and dreamt pleasant dreams about heat exhaustion and dying in canyons and the human equivalent of being slowly cooked in a Crock Pot. The last mile took as long as the first four had, and two ten-year old girls passed me on the way but I didn...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...always prided itself on being the world's undisputed leader in technological innovation. Since World War II foreign demand for aircraft, computers, automated tools and other products of American labs and workshops could be relied on to provide a fat surplus in the nation's balance of trade. No more. Though the U.S. still retains an overall lead in total amounts spent on R. and D. and in numbers of new inventions, its chief economic rivals are expanding their research efforts at much faster rates. One consequence is becoming dramatically clear this year: because the U.S. no longer commands such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Innovation Recession | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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