Word: plump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
...hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered one day last July. As he surveyed the two plump goddesses surrounding Paris and Venus, Millar now recalls, "I smelled a Rubens...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
...There was a kind of dignity, a kind of apprehension in their approach," one spectator noted. "Yeh, sort of like a pilgrimage," another added. But soon the whole beach crowd was jumping into the cascade of suds, which came up to their knees, thighs, armpits. One plump sculptress plunked herself down, let the foam flow over her. Explained a Happener: "I'm exposing the five senses to a completely irrational environment." The suds were harmless, and they sent Kaprow into raptures. Said he: "It was like tons and tons of danger kissing you like a powder puff...
...they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions are good enough to hang in both the Chicago Art Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Wahleah was properly tearful...