Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carping at the more egregious ethical lapses on Capitol Hill is a popular American sport. It is in season all the time, and offers bounties to political scientists and editorial writers whenever a plump target like Bobby Baker, Senator Thomas Dodd or Representative Adam Clayton Powell pops up. The sport is perfectly legitimate, especially because Congressmen are often hasty to impose tougher conflict-of-interest standards on others than on their own erring colleagues. But serious, searching analysis of the subject is uncommon. Last week the Association of the Bar of the City of New York produced exactly that...
Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...
...Levitt), an incipient slut, has been pushed past the edge of mental stability, and at moments of extreme stress goes into convulsive spasms. Since any display of affection is cauterized by the mother's tongue, the younger daughter (Pamela Payton-Wright) lavishes her care and love on a plump white rabbit...
...sand is the same golden brown color as the disappearing sun. A sparkling shaft of light moves with me as I run. I am very young; maybe ten, because I remember that my sister is the girl whose hand I am holding. We are laughing, tan all over, with plump brown stomachs hanging...