Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale up to 199 lbs., not too far out of line, he thought, with the standardized chart readings for a 5-ft. 9-in. 40-year-old male. But Simpson got a rude shock when the spa analysis revealed what proportion of his weight was muscle and what fat. A puffy 31% was fat, a figure well above the levels judged acceptable by physiologists. "I freaked out," Simpson recalls. "I didn't realize I was that out of shape...
...after a year of intensive exercise and fastidious dieting, he is down to a sleek 155 lbs. Even better, he has trimmed his body fat to 10%. And he is intent on lowering it still further. Says Simpson, who scrupulously checks his body-fat percentage every six weeks: "This is a life change...
Sound the gun, pull down the curtain and turn on the fat lady's microphone. The season's over for the Harvard women's soccer team...
...English Language. "A storehouse and mirror of the language," is how Editor in Chief Stuart Berg Flexner describes the new dictionary, and with its 315,000 entries, the twelve-pound volume amply lives up to the billing. Along with the publication, between 1972 and 1986, of four fat folios supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the most important dictionary venture since 1966, when Random House's first edition appeared...
Even before Black Monday struck, there were signs that Wall Street's five- year stay in Fat City was ending. Profits were shrinking: during the second quarter of 1987, U.S. brokerages generated $553 million in pretax income, in contrast to $2 billion in the first three months of the year. Retrenchment of some kind was already in the cards. Last week's crash guaranteed that it will be harsher than was previously expected...