Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luckily, though, some do. Roger Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns...
...keep control of Summa, Cousin Lummis has abandoned his Houston law practice to take personal charge of the holding company. Among his problems: fat salaries for four former Hughes nurse-secretaries, who must be kept happy and available to testify at future court hearings...
...your short article, "Heavy Promotion" [May 30], you implied that fat women have no right to eat what we wish or to wear what is pretty...
...candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...sweetheart, says that he would marry her again tomorrow. He takes college courses in physical education when he is not hitting home runs and stealing bases, and plans to be a junior-college baseball coach when he retires from the game. Morgan vows: "I'll never be a fat cat. I'll always do constructive things." He feels not the slightest twinge of guilt about making more money than the President. "When people ask me that," he says, paraphrasing a famed riposte by Babe Ruth, "my answer is: 'Can the President hit Tom Seaver...