Word: plump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage, Captain Macheath and Mrs. Peachum can scream bitter words to sneering music; but in the audience a dentist will tap his feet and hum along gaily. "This is as good as My Fair Lady," he whispers to his plump wife. "It's better," she answers; "it's more modern...
...Chairman Ben W. Heineman. 48, onetime corporation lawyer who became boss of the road in 1956 and has shoved it intermittently into the black by consolidating lines and eliminating stations, cutting money-losing runs and reducing jobs-including those of 600 telegraphers, who presumably would collect new jobs or plump payoffs if the union wins. A presidential emergency board recommended last June that the telegraphers drop their demand. The union has ignored...
...wages for 20 years-if even then. But wages in the past twelve months have soared 14%, wiping out.a productivity gain of 7%. Businessmen have covered part of the increase by raising prices (Germany's export prices have increased 4.2% over the past year). Gone are the plump times when German firms could simultaneously finance all investment from profits, add lavishly to reserves and pay handsome dividends. Wrote the business-oriented daily Frankfurter Allgemeine: "We have long since ceased being a model, and instead are increasingly coming to be a horrible example. We are running wildly into the inflationary...
...unusually clear diction. His voice is well produced throughout his range. Elaine Malbin shows considerable skill as an actress in the part of Lilli Vanessi (and Katherine). Miss Malbin, however, might be shown to better advantage in a conventional theatre where her diminutive stature would not convey the slightly plump appearance it does on an arena state. Her voice seems to have lost power in its lower range over the last two years without compensating gains...
...that post less than a year, Ted Heath's reputation was put to the test in the ordeal of the Suez crisis. For weeks a top-to-bottom split in Tory ranks threatened to topple the government. In night after night of impassioned debate, Ted Heath's plump, pink face bobbed up wherever, as one M.P. says, "there was a soul to be saved." Convinced that it was too perilous a time for a general election, he averted that disaster almost singlehanded...