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Word: fatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!" Yet in the next sentence Sabatini can turn a flashing phrase (a eunuch's hands are two "bunches of fat fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...happen, this most bizarre media event of the campaign? God, could it be the acid? Has it happened to Hunter, too, what happened to Rennie Davis and so many other twisted LSD casualties--The Dread Post-Acid Gurunoid Syndrome? Is Jimmy Carter his 14-year-old fat...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: A Snack Pack of Conspiracies and Scum | 8/3/1976 | See Source »

...inhabitants never walk if they can ride. Their conversation is boring. The food in their inns-mainly smoked or salted bear fat, corn bread and weak coffee-is "very mediocre." Worse, travelers must often sleep on the floor, surrounded by couples engaged in various sexual acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Gallic Grumbles | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...runs the C.B.A. When Bass first began coming to the conventions, they were populated largely by folks in their 50s who ran dusty little Mom-and-Pop Bible stores. Religion bookshops nowadays are bigger, better located and reaching many more customers. According to the association's ad-fat monthly, almost 50 titles now on the market have sold 1 million copies, and hundreds every year pass 100,000-substantially more than the average novel on newspaper bestseller lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fervor and Froth | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

They stacked us up behind the podium, with only some close-circuit apparatus as a window to the festivities. The tube was poorly placed; one well-situated fat man could wipe out 200 newspapers' visibility of the events on the floor. A pink tag, you see, only guaranteed you a ticket to wait in line for a pass to get on the floor. There were only 25 passes for all of us. A pass allowed you 20 minutes on the floor. As soon as your time was up you got back in line and waited for an hour...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Worm in the Garden | 7/20/1976 | See Source »

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