Word: fatted
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...they accurately describe the emotion and facts on the playing field. When the going gets tough (i.e. during crunch time or through adversity), the tough get going (see West, Montana, or DiMaggio, and for the reverse see Barry Bonds or John Thompson). The game isn't over till the fat lady sings. (See game six of the '86 world series.) There is no "I" in team (See the New Jersey Nets for the losing side of that coin, and the 1988 Dodgers for the winning side...
...course, all of this happened 15 years ago. Carter and Reagan are long gone from the Washington scene. Will, meanwhile, has established himself as a prominent voice of conservatism, a television performer on ABC and a speech writer for fat fees. Free enterprise has been kind to him and that's fine...
Some adjustments were almost comic. Females quickly learned that their lingerie would be ruined in the ship's laundry, which has no gentle wash cycle. The mess-hall menu was geared to hungry young males, with few low-fat items. More bathrooms had to be allotted to women in the 333-m-long carrier so they wouldn't have to walk city blocks to find one. Male sailors received so many lectures about fraternization that at first they were afraid even to talk to females. "Everyone was on edge," says Bosun's Mate 1 Isaac Small...
CHRIS FARLEY has built a career on playing fat, loud, accident-prone losers. But NEWT GINGRICH wasn't insulted when the Saturday Night Live comic (and co-star of the new film Tommy Boy) turned up at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee acting just like him. Farley first took a swipe at the Speaker's penchant for handing out reading lists, offering up one that included a children's book as well as novels by Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Imitating Gingrich's rapid-fire delivery, Farley then pushed through bills declaring all Democrats officially weird and moving...
...clear that Hendrix is still the master of pure sound on the electric guitar. His solo improvisations are not based so much on notes as they are on the quality of the tone produced by his instrument, which changes from a shrill and piercing wa-wa to a low, fat growl...