Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suits the style of the late 20th century. In possibly overheated fears, it becomes a death-dealing absolute loose in the world. Westerners for some years have consolidated their dreads, reposing them (if that is the word) in the Bomb, in the one overriding horror of nuclear holocaust. A fat and prosperous West is lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic of Thomas...
Newly back from a vacation on the Crimean seashore, Mikhail Gorbachev looks well tanned, just a bit ruddy in the cheek. He conveys an image of robust | health and naturally controlled energy. He is solid but not fat. He laughs easily...
There are poetic conventions and cliches and codes in composing a personal ad. One specifies DWF (divorced white female), SBM (single black male), GWM (gay white male) and so on, to describe marital status, race, sex. Readers should understand the euphemisms. "Zaftig" or "Rubenesque," for example, usually means fat. "Unpretentious" is liable to mean boring. "Sensuous" means the party likes...
...employer, the Hotel Continental, was the headquarters for the third annual Chicago Bud Light U.S. Triathlon Series, which attracted 2,400 professional and amateur athletes, the largest gathering a triathlon has pulled in so far. There was not enough excess body fat among the participants to fill a shot glass. One could not traipse a hall anywhere without hearing the tick-tick-tick of a ten-speed coming down hard on the heels. To the uninitiated, a crowd like this can be intimidating. And to an observer not possessed of a similar obsession, ceaseless talk of training techniques, water temperatures...
...from proceeding with his takeover bid, which involved a great deal of debt. In order to honor his guarantee, Wyman said, the firm would sell $300 million in assets, though any spinoffs would not take the company out of broadcasting, records or publishing. Wyman also claimed that trimming corporate fat could save $20 million annually. Said he: "There is no place (in CBS) where the Swiss watch is functioning so perfectly that there is no room for improvement...