Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then even the regimented Japs were beginning to ask when their fleet would come out and fight. For the nonce, plump, taciturn Shimada said nothing; Tokyo's radio fantasists explained to the homeland and to Greater East Asia that the thing to do was to wait and see: some time the U.S. fleet would find itself far from home. Then the Jap fleet would strike the crushing blow...
...place the people of this part of France are not hungry-far from it. This province is rich in milk, butter, cheese, eggs, beef, veal, cider, applejack and horseflesh. The countrymen are sturdy and long-lived. The women are as rosy-cheeked as the apples they pick, the children plump as pumpkins...
...Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...
...stories are simple, sometimes only a few paragraphs of cadenced prose. Their taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is a harsh story for anyone to have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling...
...Treasury Catto first came into intimate contact with John Maynard Keynes, another wartime Treasury advisor. Chance gave the two men adjoining offices in the old Board of Trade building. To the surprise of all they became fast friends. The gaunt, six-foot Keynes had an unparalleled intellectual equipment. Plump, Pickwickian, smiling Lord Catto had the practical experience which Keynes lacked. Together they made a sure-footed team - Keynes operating in the world of high theory, always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose...