Word: larded
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...from active duty in Navy and Air Force to try again. They did not do well in early races, but observers blamed it on lack of condition. Last week, as the crews lined up for the final test on Onondaga Lake near Syracuse, N.Y., the last trace of sedentary lard was gone, and the Admirals were as ready as they ever would...
...platoon is a batch of human putty. Among them are: trusty, pipe-smoking Schnurrbart, a born second-in-command; Dietz, a mamma's boy with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds the dying...
...that made his reputation: the postwar nightmare of inflation-ridden Berlin. Grosz glared at the world with jaundiced, penetrating eye, set down the characters he saw in portraits etched in gall: frozen-faced Prussian officers, lecherous, high-collared industrialists, black-marketeers, mutilated soldiers, and the city's frumpish, lard-fleshed whores. Perversely, the rich enjoyed their own caricatures. But when the Nazis took over, they were not so understanding; Grosz's savage anti-Hitler cartoons soon earned him a place at the top of their list of decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration...
...Argentina ended 1954 with $42.4 million in credits from her dealings with the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. The Argentines shipped nearly all of the agreed-upon quantities of meat, hides, cheese, lard and linseed oil, but the Russians sent only one-fourth of the promised oil, lagged on deliveries of coal, steel, chemicals and machinery...
...with crocodile tears." Jelke, he said, was just a "little toy poodle." Prosecutor Liebler had another word for him: "Jelke's a male madam; that's what he is!" When the jury came in with a guilty verdict, Mickey, who is now 25, turned as white as lard: he faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in the penitentiary. But with luck and good behavior he will probably be out in plenty of time to collect his inheritance, due in 1960. Other punishment has already been visited upon him: he has served 6½ months in the workhouse...