Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-overdue policy shift, will no longer pay farmers to hold down production. Butz warns farmers to expect shortages of fertilizers and of propane gas used to dry grains. But barring drought, blight or flood, the men and women on the land can look forward to an even fatter harvest and richer incomes next year...
...mother of six. Then, to the astonishment of nearly everybody, at age 37, she produced a massive, readable, academically respectable biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Now, nearly five years later, as if intent on proving that her first success was no accident, the lady has delivered a fatter and more scholarly study of Oliver Cromwell, the florid, slovenly country gentleman who became Britain's first Lord Protector...
...Taming of the Shrew. Burton and Taylor in happier, if fatter, times. Franco Zefferelli directed this lush adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy, and the transition from stage to screen is a ribald, rousing success. The still beautiful Taylor and the seething, brutal Burton swagger through the film with consummate ease, and one suspects this is because they have played the same roles for real. Channel...
...expensive. Reform, using money more effectively, will be the mark of this Administration." The President objected to the idea that the nation needs "some new massive government program...What we need now, rather than more government is better government. Many times the better is not the fatter, but the leaner. What I am standing for is government finding ways...to give people incentive to do more for themselves on their own without government assistance...
...years perched on the elephant's back have taught me one truth: the G.O.P. has never done a beneficial thing for ordinary folks and never will. Its basic philosophy is to let the people bite the bullet while the fat cats get fatter...