Word: overweighting
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Among the new faces is that of General Yamut, who was upped from command of the Turkish land forces when a bevy of high-ranking generals was retired or removed for being overage, overweight or overzealous in their support of Republican Inönü. At 61, Nüri Yamut is a leathery, thin-mouthed veteran who gets along well with top U.S. military aid officers, is thoroughly sold on modern techniques...
...Towers), he explained, because he has built three towering structures: an office building in Milan and factories near Venice and in Spain. His real name is Franco Marinotti, and his personal income is around $2,000,000 a year. At 60, Marinotti looks a bit like a short and overweight Daddy Warbucks. He has painted all his life...
...Highway Patrol weighing station checked 6,700 trucks (not 4,000), and 203 (not 356) were in violation of the so-called legal load limit. This constitutes a 3% violation (not 9%) . . .Of the 3% accused of violations, almost all were for uncontrollable axle weights, and not for gross overweight . . . The great majority of Ohio's truck operators are opposed to all violations of the state's highway laws, regardless of their inequity...
...hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...
...Louis, now half a dozen overweight years past his prime, was warned by Jack Dempsey last week to quit the ring. Said Dempsey: "Louis is a lot farther over the hill than I was when I hung up the gloves in 1927. He ought to quit before he gets hurt and finds a permanent address on Queer Street...