Word: plump
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Poor Carlos was plump as a child. Schoolmates called him "El Gordo...
...just because they didn't go around paraphrasing Broadway musicals. Unlike Baby Boomer women, dear old Mom just soldiered on without theorizing too much about it. She didn't look for meaning in a diaper, or make distinctions between quality vs. quantity time. She wished she were not so plump, but it would have never entered her mind to take two hours out of her day to jump around to an exercise video. Rocky marriages were talked about over coffee perked in a Farberware pot. But most women didn't expect to find the moon and stars in another human...
...gown. "It wasn't until she was walking up our narrow, winding stairs that I realized who it was. Then I was really, really nervous. But she made us feel at ease. I think she was wearing something with a frilly neck, a full skirt, and she was rather plump, quite shy and seemed to look out from under her bangs. The first time I met her, she needed a formal dress for an evening engagement with Prince Charles, so we went through the rails. We found a black dress that she looked great in, but it was quite revealing...
...year-old girl named Peov was soft-featured and plump, though like Seng she was skeletal when she arrived at the camp. The first two years she hardly spoke a word. It was through a picture she drew that the adults working with her discovered what had happened...
DIED. BOB DEVANEY, 82, pre-eminent coach in college football in the early 1970s when he led the University of Nebraska to back-to-back national titles; in Lincoln, Neb. His wisecracking style and plump, rumpled figure sometimes made rivals underestimate him. But he never coached a losing season during 11 years with the Cornhuskers...