Word: plump
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...Madison Square Garden ring, Williams, who was still earnestly shadow-boxing eight hours before the fight to sweat off the last three-quarters of a pound, looked string-muscled and drawn from the strain of making the weight. Carter, also 27 and a natural lightweight (133 lbs.), looked plump in comparison. And he did not seem to have read the jeering predictions of the sportwriters...
Ever since plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband...
...Ethel Rosenberg, wife of Julius and sister of confessed Spy David Greenglass. A short, plump woman of 35, she lived with Julius and their two sons in a grubby, $51-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side and helped Julius collect and record vital espionage data...
Frosted Flag. After a cornet duet and a song (Indian Love Call), plump Mrs. Julia Bennett, the Chippewa historian, instructed the colonel in the "teachings and ideals in the ancient Chippewa faith," and the assembled braves and chiefs christened Bertie Me-Gee-See, i.e., "Chief Eagle." Explained Historian Bennett: "What it really means is that now he can come and dance with us any time he wants...
...into a promise of chastity, Barbara Bel Geddes shines and twinkles with an authentic radiance. Her give & take with Co-Stars Donald Cook and Barry Nelson is sharp, sure, and exquisitely timed. Her poise is unshakable. In 1941, when she first appeared on Broadway, critics had called Barbara a "plump" and "promising" ingenue. Now, trimmer, slimmer, and thoroughly resourceful on the stage, she is an accomplished, soundly competent performer...