Word: plumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
...Plumper and a little greyer, but flashing his oldtime smile, Batista met the press at Camp Columbia, handed out the names of his civilian cabinet, announced that the June 1 elections were off and explained that constitutional guarantees would have to be suspended for a while. "My only intention is to maintain law & order." he said. "I am a friend of the people, not of gangsters...
Presiding over the debates on a new constitution, Auriol was in his element. Scrubby mustache bristling, his face grown plumper and pinker from exertion, Auriol would ring his little bell passionately as the debate grew stormy, calling, "Messieurs . . . MESSIEURS...