Word: plump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost as big as Hays is Ronnie Gilbert, the only female member of the group, has a reasonably pleasant voice, but she bounces around on stage too much. A plump woman in sedate dress gyrating like a 16-year-old cheer-leader looks ludicrous, and embarrasses. Although her enthusiasm is contagious and creditable, she comes across better on records than in person...
...February Digest of 1962 reproduced the cover of its first issue and reprised its first reprinted article, "How to Keep Young Mentally," which encouraged charter subscribers to "Observe! Remember! Compare!" Another feature of this first issue, also reproduced, was a varied collection of homilies, designed to plump out a page and satisfy the public appetite for bite-size sermons. Examples...
Hard by the Swiss-German border, 50 green-coated hunters crouched in the bulrushes and cocked their scatter-guns. The hunters were edgy. It was 7:27 a.m.-three minutes left before they could start banging away legally at the flock of plump, brown-black Belchen (coots) paddling peacefully across the nippy surface of Lake Constance. Suddenly, a single shot sounded-then a rapid fusillade. Out of the reeds raced a Swiss patrol boat. "Wrho fired those shots?" roared an angry official. "Not us," answered a sullen German hunter. "It was those damned Tierschutzverein [i.e., S.P.C.A.] people trying to warn...
...interests in the projects it builds. For example, instead of collecting a $100,000 construction fee for the Phoenix shopping center, Webb got an equity share that brought in $80,000 annually for seven years, later was sold for $1,000,000. Enterprising Del Webb figures that such plump profits will look like peanuts at the baseball game once his Texas-sized land development gets off the ground...
Died. Florence Kathryn Lewis, 50, quietly powerful daughter of the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, a plump, outwardly placid woman who left Bryn Mawr to become her father's secretary, buffered his fierce temperament with her own dexterous diplomacy, eventually rose to become boss of District 50. the U.M.W.'s vehicle for organizing outside the mining industry; in Manhattan...