Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining Greek literature from Homer to 600 A.D. is "500 fat books," Classics scholars involved in using computers are fond of saying, and at the University of California-Irvine they have spent $6 million and 15 years trying to make that information available to all the scholarsin the nation...
...When Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's steely chief of staff, admitted in 1958 that he had accepted a vicuna coat and some blankets from Textile Manufacturer Bernard Goldfine, even Ike, who had vowed that his Administration would be "clean as a hound's tooth," took no action until Republican fat cats warned that party fund raising might suffer unless Adams left. Eisenhower let aides pass that worry along to Adams, who then stepped down. As Adams wrote in his memoirs: "Any presidential appointee whose presence in the Administration becomes an embarrassment to the President for any reason whatsoever...
...afternoon in the Loita Hills, there were three Masai warriors, called ilmurran, sitting in the shade beside a dung-walled hut. Their hair was long and greased with fat. They were barefoot and wore only the shuka, a bright- patterned piece of cloth, like a tablecloth, draped as a short toga around waist and shoulders. Their spears leaned against the wall of the hut, with their rungu -- knob-ended clubs that the Masai can throw with a fierce accuracy. One of the warriors, named David, spoke halting English. He was about 20 years old, although the Masai pay little attention...
Also worth a note is the frame-sequences, featuring a skinny dinosaur and a fat...a fat something arguing in a movie theater on a show called "Freak Previews." The resemblances are amazing, as are the levels of violence reached as the two chew each other out. As it were...
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is March 3 this year, so mark your calendars. New Orleans, the ultimate party town, starts celebrating about two weeks early. The exclusive balls have long been out, but it's not too late to join in the drinking and gallivanting that goes on every night in the French Quarter...