Word: plump
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Cambodia's plump, Western-minded King Norodam Sihanouk Varden, 29, repeatedly ordered Premier Huy Kanthoul to take strong measures against the rebels. But, like the rebels themselves, dictatorial Premier Huy Kanthoul was more interested in plaguing the French than in keeping out the Reds...
...husky, and as he talks, he abstractly fingers a couple of worn coins. As on an old coin, the familiar face has grown a little indistinct. Heavily framed spectacles sometimes slip down to the end of the short nose; around the turned-down mouth, the once plump bull-terrier cheeks now sag mastiff-like...
...shops of the Kurfurstendamm, or loafed in its sidewalk cafes over mountainous sundaes and cool drinks. The Busch Circus, set up in tents nearby, advertised a "Swedish Tarzan" and eight ferocious tigers. Along Onkel Tom Strasse* in the U.S. sector, Berliners strolled through a fragrant snowfall of locust blossoms. Plump, healthy-looking children cavorted atop West Berlin's "Mountain of Tears," a huge pile of rubble...
...postwar Britain, the "terrible twins," waxing plump and still bachelors, were made air vice-marshals.* David took his jet fighter squadron to Suez to guard the Empire's lifeline; Dick took charge of the air defense of Britain's Midland counties. Last week Air Vice-Marshal David, now 48, climbed in his Meteor jet and took off for Cyprus, about 300 miles away. Somewhere in the airforce-blue waters of the peaceful Mediterranean, he crashed and drowned, leaving Air Vice-Marshal Dick to go it alone...
...1920s Schumacher, despite his missing arm, was a plump and healthy Socialist who enjoyed good food and the company of actresses, read detective stories as well as the turgid literature of Socialism, and liked to sit up late in a coffeehouse arguing politics. He early decided to remain a bachelor. "I am married to politics," he would say. From the beginning, he goaded Germany's older, more cautious Socialists. At the first weak rumblings of Naziism, in 1921, Schumacher organized young street fighters to combat the new evil, but the old Socialists would not get behind the movement...