Word: overweightness
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McNamara dismissed the argument that using the Army for such rehabilitation might overweight the importance of the military in American society. "We don't make any effort to militarize a civilian" while he is in uniform, he said...
...Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, and Bea Lillie (who came...
Neurosis has become glamorous. Movie Critic Pauline Kael speaks of "the nervous breakdowns, miscarriages, overweight problems, husband troubles, and all those mental and physical ills which now comprise the image of a great star. In the frivolous, absurd old days, stars were photographed in their bubble baths; now they bathe in tears of self-pity...
...aptitude tests, saying that there is "ample evidence" that some of the tests reflect cultural value systems that are foreign to the underprivileged and therefore do not correctly assess their basic intelligence. As for medical rejects, military doctors will try to salvage the less serious of them by getting overweight men to diet away excess poundage. Next year, the doctors will also begin performing surgery on men with defects that can be put right in a short time, such as hernias...
Orson Welles, looking puffy, overblown and overweight, exhibited Chimes and Midnight, a lively film that he directed and wrote with the help of William Shakespeare, who supplied the chief character: Falstaff, played by Welles. Through the centuries, most actors have had to stuff padding under their tights to play the renowned clown. Welles, at 51, remains unique; he is probably the first actor in history who appears too fat for the role...