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Word: fattish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...functions. By the time she had taken some photos for the family album and finished her ten-day visit, she was being criticized not only for her manners but for her looks and taste. Liz, carped Zan-E-Ruz, Iran's largest women's magazine, "is a fattish, short, big-busted woman with poor makeup, and totally out of fashion." ∙ "She predicted we wouldn't do well against Chicago last weekend, and they kicked the living dickens out of us," noted Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley of his new employee. She is Laurie Brady, an astrologer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1976 | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...life very lightly, discussing his novels and short stories briefly and barely mentioning both his career as critic for the New Statesman and the major study of Balzac he has worked on for years. Now approaching his parents' great age, Pritchett looks at himself: "A bald man, his fattish face supported by a valance of chins. I am seventy, and in my father's phrase, 'I would like a little more.' " Is it too greedy to ask for one more volume of memoirs? -Martha Duffy

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Making of a Writer | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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