Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recognize an author's bias. A spin-off of LAC-10, a reading-writing course, is also well attended. While TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce sat in on a class last week, students were asked what came to mind when presented with each of several different adjectives meaning fat. Sample answers: for paunchy, "beerbelly"; corpulent, "overweight but dignified"; fleshy, "yuck, flabby"; burly, "a lumberjack or truck driver"; roly-poly, "funny, clownlike...
...never really appreciate the luxury of accessible, stimulating surroundings until they're gone. Four years of Cambridge makes you fat and complacent--stimulus is routine there, served up like glop on the cafeteria line. It's departure is tangible...
...your throat. If you do anything wrong, it gets magnified. To be fair to people like Jean, you have to recognize that he has faults and then ask if his accomplishments are worthwhile. When you look at Jean as a whole person, you come out with a big fat plus...
There are honorable reasons for shark to make it to the menu. The firm white meat resembles swordfish but is slightly more chewy, and has a scallop-like texture. Easy to clean and butcher, it is almost oil-free (sharks store all their fat in their liver), is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains almost as much protein as canned tuna. Shark is a highly esteemed food in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Orient (indeed, delicately flavored shark's fin soup is a standard dish in U.S. Chinese restaurants) and Latin America, where savory dried and smoked...
...FITNESS AS TO CRAFT, HEALTH AND LIFE. Breath control is essential. I tried to persuade old Charles Laughton of that when he told me he was going to do Lear. He asked if I could give him any advice. I said, "Yes, I can, you fat, old s.o.b. [pronounced sob]. You have a large estate in Norfolk. I've seen it, not that you ever invited me to it, dear boy. I was catty. You have a large estate with an extensive hillside. Every morning I want you to climb that hillside, and shout out the lines." Well...