Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acorn underwent knee surgery in August for a smashed fat pad suffered last May. He played at less than his peak throughout the season, and it was not until the final two games that he could run full out, he said...
Hillier's remarkable weight loss is the result not of some new dieting fad but of the oldest, surest and quickest way to get rid of excess fat: fasting. Along with others afflicted with severe obesity, he had enrolled in a pioneering fasting clinic at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital. Except for a powdery mix of mainly alanine (an amino acid) and glucose that is taken with water or diet drinks, patients at the clinic eat nothing whatsoever for weeks and months at a time, starving off their pounds...
...possibly harmful bodily changes-and given enough packets of the supplement to last them for the next seven days. The purpose of the supplement (which comes in three flavors and supplies 300 calories a day) is not to provide nutrition but to encourage the body to burn off unnecessary fat rather than necessary protein. Otherwise the fasting might damage the heart, liver, muscles and brain...
Soul! "I should say that my soul was about the size of Spain, though in a better spiritual condition ..." Hey, Mistress Quickly! Another round for Robert Nye and his fat friend...
Died. Mrs. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 76, widow of the Sultan of Swat, baseball's greatest player; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Broadway dancer from Georgia, Claire Hodgson was unimpressed when she first met Ruth in 1923. "His face and his stomach were fat, his legs like a chorus girl's," she wrote in her 1959 memoir The Babe and I. As his second wife, she helped curb the Bambino's bacchanalian excesses during their 19-year marriage. After his death, she became the custodian of his legend. Though the Babe's home-run records...