Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affluent athlete: an off-the-diamond business. Before the season, his fried chicken takeout restaurant in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District announced that they would give away free chicken every time Willie hit a home run. As one happy fan explains: "The thinner Sugar Bear gets, the fatter...
...without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus out of any blacks and Slavs foolish enough to stray onto the wrong side of the street. As young Hamburgs grew older, fatter and more sophisticated, the bonds of brotherhood held and forged a collective political power. The proto-mayor eventually used it to propel him into office...
...studio. Paramount, she claims in a fat 14-point complaint, took her black comedy away from her and "advised me ... that the film released would be that as cut and edited by Fritz Steinkamp, a Hollywood editor, and Robert Evans, a vice president of Paramount Pictures Corporation." In a fatter, angrier 81-count reply, Paramount insists that "Elaine May failed to perform her duties as a director in a timely, workmanlike and professional manner, resulting in substantially increased production costs...
...make the change in hours acceptable. Among companies that switched successfully, many offered overtime for the last hour of the day and gave their workers an incentive bonus for full attendance-along with a slightly lower basic pay scale. The net effect was that workers took home somewhat fatter pay envelopes for the same number of hours...
...self-importance level in the room is rather high, and the narcissism count is even higher (higher than in the dressing room at the Loeb?), and you are feeling fatter and sloppier by the second and wish you were hiding in your favorite chair in Ticknor Library or in a bathroom at Holyoke Center or at the Graduate Center even, really, anywhere, but here, on the slippery, basketball court surface of the Radcliffe Gym, pretending you're a dancer...