Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plump Adelaide Bowman, who was only the boss's secretary, testified that she had received $39,356 in salary and bonuses last year. In return: "I just work." She took some worries off the boss's mind, Miss Bowman explained, and added: "He's generous and the most wonderful man in the world...
...There is so little new, nonsecret research that The Physical Review, abstruse physicists' tradesheet, now appears only once a month instead of twice a month; and other once-plump learned journals are beginning to show their ribs...
...Though they spend their lives on the bottom of the sea, well protected from rain, oysters grow plump in rainy seasons, lean in droughts. So claimed the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Reason: rain washes minerals from the soil into sounds and ocean bays, where they fertilize the microscopic plants which oysters...
...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
When a repealer came up last week, with an indignant citizenry looking on, 75 Senators rushed to get right; only five had the courage to plump for pensions again...