Word: fatted
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...when I was not stiffly greeting relatives at one of the many wedding-related functions, I made all efforts to acclimate myself to the culture. I ate nothing but chocolate brioche oozing with Nutella and/or brie (after all, I rationalized, French women don’t get fat). I appreciated the finery of local products (read: purchased super-cute bikini with matching necklace), devoured novels by the author Colette, and refined my once fluently-spoken French. My securely-fastened bikini top notwithstanding, I felt at home in Juan-les-Pins...
...years Life expectancy for Japanese women, whose fish-based, low-fat diet has helped them hold the world record for longevity since...
...Armstrong, 33, insisted he was finished, though he?s not quite ready for shuffleboard. ?I?m an athlete,? he said after Saturday?s time trial. ?I?m not going to sit around and be a fat slob.? But he?ll take his time deciding what?s next. ?I don?t know the next time [when] I?ll ride a bike will be,? he said after clinching the title. ?I?ve got to refocus my life and try to find a new balance. I need goals, but they won?t be sporting goals. I can?t imagine a life of vacation...
...friends are suddenly and embarrassingly horny. Sometimes this is (literally) charming: when her love interest hooks up with another girl, for instance, Hermione conjures a flock of twittering birds to attack him, and they batter him all the way to the door “like a hail of fat golden bullets.” But elsewhere the romance feels uninspired; Rowling is apparently a little too far away from adolescence to remember youthful flings as anything more than triumphs in physical awkwardness, as scene after scene of 16-year-olds “eating” each other?...
Then the lights went out. On Thursday morning, Chris Lowry, 17, a lawyer's clerk, was sitting on a Piccadilly Line train outside King's Cross when "a fat blast came from the front end. I actually think I fell out of my seat at first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train...