Word: plump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was more evidence-a plump, heavy package which had been lying in a Brooklyn attic like a dusty bomb during all the ten years in which Chambers had been trying to live down his past...
...Self-Evident Suppositions." The new mayor was plump, balding Friedrich ("Fritz") Ebert, renegade son of a famed father. The elder Ebert was the first president of the Weimar Republic, a vigilant democrat who was credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
Favorite target of Prague wits is the plump, unlearned wife of Premier Klement Gottwald. They say she met a friend who twittered: "We are going tonight to the Marriage of Figaro. Will you be there...
Year after year the wives of big businessmen and officials came to plump, dark-haired Stavroula Tsouchlou's elegant Athens salon to select dresses at $200 and up. Business was fine. Still, Stavroula seemed to be troubled...
Into this situation strode Mario Vargas. He was plump, but with the telltale flush still on his cheeks. He argued with his officer friends for compromise. "Things have changed," he was told. Vargas decided to go along with them. Then tanks rumbled down Caracas' narrow, hilly streets, truckfuls of steel-helmeted soldiers screeched up before Miraflores. In a matter of 30 minutes, troops had occupied every important building and intersection in the city...