Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...Want Minnie." Plump, greying little Minnie (Mrs. Charles) Guggenheimer, 67, had not planned to make a speech this year; in 32 years as boss of the stadium concerts, she had made the same decision only once or twice before. But when the chant, "We want Minnie, we want Minnie," showed no signs of a diminuendo, Minnie gave...
...down an immaculate corridor, is one of the most cheerful-seeming places in the hospital. Divided by stiff brown curtains into examination booths, it rings on Friday mornings with the voices of children. A little boy with a Tommy gun shoots sparks at a white-coated doctor, and a plump little girl cradles her doll. In a corner, a nurse in a starched white uniform peers through a microscope and makes a click-click sound with a small, sharp-voiced machine. She is counting in some child's blood the deadly white cells of leukemia: cancer of the blood...
...world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker's secretary, danced...
Early in the war, plump, bustling Ruddy Tongg formed a syndicate of small businessmen, called a hid (rhymes with Louie), and bought up properties of Caucasians fleeing to the mainland. At war's end, Ruddy Tongg had $1,000,000 worth of choice assets, including a bottling works, lucrative Waikiki Tavern, an insurance company, a 36,000-acre ranch and other real estate...