Word: plumpings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...computer cannot, of course, ensure total domestic tranquillity. One plump freshman complained that her machine-matched roommate "gets cold too easily and wants to turn the heat on." Her thin chum countered that she can't really enjoy eating cookies from home while her friend is on a diet...
Agnew drops the princess phone and shouts to Judy in the next room, "I'm it!" Whereupon the camera would zoom in on Elinor Isobel Judefind Agnew, 47, plump, brunette wife of the Maryland Governor, as she registers the pride and terror of being transformed from a cheerful home body who "majored in marriage" (as she puts it) into the wife of a vice-presidential candidate...
...seven kids to educate, and the first one starts college in a couple of years. Where else could I make this kind of money?" Where indeed? In his pro career, Boros has won more than $650,000, and his income lately has stabilized at a pleasantly plump, middle-aged level. Last year, in 25 tournaments, he earned $126,785. This year, after 18 tournaments, he has $82,701 in the bank, and professes to be a trifle disappointed that he hasn't won more. "I'm playing better all the time," he explains-adding, a bit incredulously...
...Plump and prosperous at the age of 45, ex-Middleweight Champ Rocky Graziano knocks out little more than clichés these days as a TV "personality." His old nemesis, Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano...
...night, policemen are posted at every intersection on this strip. A navy blue M.P. paddywagon watches over one of the discotheques. Gangs of well-liquored sailors and well-lacquered women stroll the street, stopping to chat in convenient alleyways. At Breen Square, a plump Polish girl will offer to show you her apartment...