Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with this nationwide spectacle of escalation, the Ivy League, in hopes of keeping its student-athletes in class, has altogether banned spring practice but for one non-contact organizatinal day. So we all get happily fat...
...next door to Pottle is the office devoted to Horace Walpole-son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, author of the classic gothic, Castle of Otranto, and foremost letter writer of his time (1717-97). For 44 years, the Walpole factory has churned out 39 of a prospective 48 fat volumes of Walpole's correspondence. A massive index, now under way, may alone fill six more volumes. The whole set is, in Librarian Martz's words, "the ultimate in annotation, excellence and accuracy...
...packed with intricate warning devices?one now sounds the alarm if the proper wing flaps are not extended on takeoff?and every major control system has backups in case it should fail. Pilots wax eloquent about the aircraft they fondly call "Fat Albert." Says one Delta captain: "Old Albert is straightforward and honest on the ground and in the air. I've got about 200,000 Ibs. of thrust on four little levers. You've got to be careful because you can blow a hangar off the ground. Another thing, you've got 350 tons of momentum when...
...When I go into an embassy and see sitting as our ambassador a fat, bloated, ignorant, rich major contributor to a presidential campaign . . . it's an insult to me and to the people of America and to the people of that country...
...general," recalls one former aide. There was an angle in his anger. Schlesinger wanted to dominate the entrenched bureaucracy of the Pentagon, which has defied the mastery of all but two or three of the eleven other Secretaries. He managed to start rebuilding the post-Viet Nam Army, trimming fat to get more men on the firing line...