Word: plump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hokkekyo was not the only place in Japan last week where the interests of God and Mammon were becoming entangled. Shinsho Temple's plump, leathery Abbot Araki had to journey 40 miles to Tokyo to find out where his temple and its 350 employees stood under the new Labor Standards Act. So far his only word of encouragement has come from Temple Warehouse Keeper Shigeru Shinohara, head of the union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation...
...protest! I protest against the expressions used with regard to our Crown Princess Juliana: "Plump Princess Juliana . . . [danced] the conga. . . . She slipped, and stayed down, while [the Duke of Gloucester] tried...
Bill of Particulars. The stockholder group was formed by plump, pink-faced Clendenin J. Ryan, 42, well-heeled grandson of the late great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan. Allied with Ryan were Allan Kirby, financial angel of Railroader Robert R. Young, and Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young and a veteran of his proxy battles. Ryan, a heavy investor in l.T. & T. (he now owns over 100,000 shares), was aroused when he failed to get a representative on l.T. & T.'s board. He declared...
...Royal Pratfall. As the kings (5) and queens (6), ruling and retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...
...responsible for this deal is the Adventists' plump, benign Carlyle B Haynes of Washington, B.C., who has made similar bargains with twelve other international unions during the past two years. Says he: "We believe that we ought not to be tied up in any organization which by a majority vote can bind us to a course of action contrary to our religious convictions...