Word: plumped
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...issue of TIME (Oct. 16), I read on p. 34 that the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, meeting in Mil waukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood." Such inconsistency is positively nauseating. When I was a girl, doctors spent a great deal of time warning young girls of the terrible consequences of wearing corsets and pulling in their waists...
...countries neighboring Germany were jangle-nerved last week, but Denmark's hulking pacifist Premier, auburn-bearded, cigar-rolling Thorvald Stauning, was absolutely frantic. Three years ago his Cabinet took the somewhat feminine position that Denmark, if attacked, had better scream for help rather than fight. Announced plump and placid Defense Minister Lauritz Rasmussen...
...poring over it a sandy-haired twelve-year-old with a great name. The youngster was Vassily ("Vasya") Iosifovich Stalin, in a neat blue double-breasted jacket and a red tie. Close-cropped fair hair, pale face and lively eyes marked Vasya for the son of his late blonde, plump mother rather than of his father, Russia's blue-black-haired Steel...
...hierophant, "survives only because two monks broke their vows of obedience. To stamp out paganism the Church had ordered all vernacular writings destroyed. It succeeded very well, for it used conquest to extend its influence, or, in failing that, it converted a Germanic chieftain by offering him a plump, pretty wife, delivered on condition that he embrace the true faith and help stamp out the practices of the heathen. These tactics were always successful. So the only remains of a rich aboriginal literature are scraps like this, saved only because a pair of bored and undutiful clerks at Fulda wasted...
...drew a base on balls. Kuhel stepped to bat. A single would tie the score again. A stiffer blow could win the game. Manager Bill Terry walked over to "Pop" Luque with a worried frown. Luque scarcely noticed him. "I get heem," he promised, and turned toward the batter. Plump!- Strike one. Plump!-Strike two. Plump...