Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fat Man--a bulbous bomb, nearly 12 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter, weighing 10,000 lbs.--was loaded into another of the 509th Group's B-29s at Tinian. The plane and its complement of escorts took off the next morning at 3:47 and headed for Kokura, a city that contained a major weapons arsenal, on the north coast of the island of Kyushu. Finding the target obscured by clouds and facing a fuel shortage on the strike plane, Major Charles W. Sweeney decided to fly over the alternate target on his way to an emergency landing...
Thus did Nagasaki enter history, an afterthought on the day of its ordeal and ever since a footnote: the second city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Fat Man exploded 1650 ft. above the city of some 240,000 people on the western coast of Kyushu at 11:02 on the morning of Aug. 9. In many ways, the event was a carbon copy of the horrors of Hiroshima: flash, heat, blast, radiation; permanent shadows cast by bombshine; thirsty, mortally burned people, emerging from the smoke and dust, trailing strips of their skin behind them. Some in Nagasaki...
Most men between the ages of 65 and 74 have a cholesterol level of 218 mg/dL. Dole, thanks to a low-fat diet and medication, has a commendable 182 mg/dl. Nearly 60% of men in the same age group suffer from hypertension. Dole's blood pressure, however, holds steady at a sound 104/70...
When she joins Joe Wex (Pelican Man) in a playful flirtation, both he and Nikki Sell (Fat-Black-Knit-Sweater-Lady) are given a chance to let the good-naturedness of their characters shine...
...movements of the rest of the characters are appropriate as well. The Pelican Man is necessarily gawky, Thimblerigger is quick and agressive and Fat-Black-Knit-Sweater-Women's roundness is in her motions as well as her hula hoop and padded costume...