Layers of fat make veins hard to find in small children and obese adults.

ECONOMIST: Medical technology

Raw whale-meat bacon (a.k.a. blubber) was white, hard to swallow and tasted like pork fat injected with cod-liver oil.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"You boys drive a hard bargain, " Brother Jobe said and whipped out a fat roll of bills.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

The third episode, which is set in Miami, features a gorgeous, wordless sequence at dusk, as fat bald men like Louie gather to swim once the hard bodies have packed up for the night.

NEWYORKER: Black and Blue

But everyone can grasp that using taxpayers' money to pay a large bonus, or a fat pension, to bankers who have crashed their banks is a hard sell during a recession.

ECONOMIST: Bonuses and AIG

Over the years, he's been working on a technique called "plastination" that replaces the water and fat inside a body's tissues with polymers -- sticky, hard-drying plastics.

CNN: 'Death can tell us a lot about living,' mummy expert says

Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends, finds that after the spectacular run, it's hard to find a utility stock trading at a reasonable price or one that offers a fat yield, but there are a few, including Atmos Energy and Pinnacle West Capital, yielding 4.3% and 5.3%, respectively.

FORBES

When excitement was hard to come by aboard a nuclear submarine in the early stretches of "Crimson Tide, " he turned a fat fire on a stove in the sub's galley into something just short of a nuclear explosion.

WSJ: Denzel Does Malice