Word: overweightness
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Jowly, at least 40 Ibs. overweight, "He looks, talks and walks like Daley" as Thompson delights in putting it. The Daley "old pol" image is not greeted downstate or even in the suburbs with the ecstasy it still engenders in Chicago. What is more, Hewlett won a bitter primary battle over Governor Dan Walker, a Daley foe, and the wounds are still festering. Another internecine war-Daley's futile attempt to oust black Representative Ralph Metcalfe from Congress-has provided Thompson with a bonanza: angry Metcalfe backers now serve as volunteers for the former prosecutor. A Hewlett snub...
...only slightly overweight and considered himself reasonably fit. He ate and drank moderately, exercised often and did not smoke. But on a warm day last May, after only five minutes of racquetball, he suddenly became extremely short of breath. A burning sensation swept through his chest. Too exhausted to continue, he crouched on the ground trying to recover. Eight weeks later he was wheeled into an operating room for a coronary bypass...
...young Polynesian boys lying on the sand. They smiled nervously. Brando studied them hard for a moment and slowly moved away. "They're O.K.," he said. "They're trapping lobsters." The kids were lucky not to have been egg hunting. Even at 52 and 40 Ibs. overweight, Marlon Brando could have taught a forceful lesson in honesty...
Tully, at Mass General Hospital, found that many anorexic patients are children of obese parents. "One pattern of anorexia is that one parent, usually the mother, is overweight and constantly dieting and compulsive about dieting and loses weight and gains it right back again. The mother's compulsive habits are forced on the children. The children start dieting wanting to be sexually attractive to males. What occurs so that they don't know when to stop I don't know...
Richard Nixon, find yourself another country to be part of. He was overweight, drinking. His message was the same as always--the struggle was worthwhile, eventually it would be won, but now, with no barricades to man, his heart...