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Word: fatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Several players can thank David Letterman for adding to their fame in 1985 (though perhaps not their fortunes). Terry Forster, for example, became a national hero when the Late Night host referred to the ex-Braves hurler as a "fat tub of goo." Another of Letterman's pet projects last summer was Kansas City Royals shortstop Buddy Biancalana, who suffered through a horrendous. 188 regular season campaign. Ten points if you can remember when Biancalana's first seven consecutive starts of the season occured...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: 1986 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Engineer hurler Karen Krans kept tossing fat ones across the plate for the eager Crimson batters--who kept hitting'em where they were...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Engineers Scoot Past Crimson Batswomen, 6-1 | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

...appears that Reagan has come out on top in the first act, the Gipper would do well to remember the words of another great coach, Dick Motta, who during the 1977 NBA Championships warned the denizens of the nation's capital that, "the opera isn't over 'til the fat lady sings...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: A Stupidity So Immense | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

...irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Shoes of Imelda Marcos | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...hate to break it to you folks but some of us can't help being women or fat and do not appreciate being insulted. Do we still laugh at racist jokes? (Obviously not, considering the general furor over the Dartmouth Review's editorial on Black students, "It Ain't No Jive Bro.") Then why do we still laugh at humor that degrades and insults women? While the editors of the Lampoon may not have had malicious intentions, there are limits to humor. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Funny | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

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