Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaches the usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...hushed halls of Lake Success, the customary conglomeration of diplomats, students, experts on everything, and housewives with nothing better to do had gathered for the 174th meeting of the United Nations Security Council. A matron in a garden party hat, who seemed to have materialized in plump perfection from a Helen Hokinson cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon...
...center field. As Northey sprinted for third base, Field Umpire John Edward ("Beans") Reardon waved his arm in a circle over his head to indicate an automatic home run and (according to Northey) emphasized his point by shouting: "What are you running for? It's a home run." Plump Ron Northey gratefully slowed to a dogtrot...
Bouncing in & out of the mudholes and dodging the landing planes, a sleek car carried a plump, moonfaced man who was trying to watch everything at once. Fred L. Wehran, Teterboro's owner, was fighting to make Teterboro the biggest air freight field in the U.S. (With 1,000 plane movements a day it was already the busiest privately owned airport...
...shocked women by telling them to scrub their faces. The Ayer company was not prospering when Lillian Dodge took over as president. Not knowing where to start, she started everywhere at once. She passed on labels, sampled powders, tested perfumes, tested cold creams on her own plump cheeks before putting them on the market...