Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contents," intoned the Lord Chancellor, his full-bottomed wig flapping spaniel-eared against his plump, ashen cheeks, "will vote in the lobby to the right of the throne; not-contents to the left of the bar." As the slow mass-movement of Britain's lords temporal and spiritual to one or the other side of their august chamber was completed, the not-contents outnumbered their opponents by 238 to 95. By thus refusing to approve a House of Commons bill to abolish capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), the House of Lords last week flung the first direct challenge...
EZRA POUND: "Remove the layers and layers of cloacinal ranting, snook-cocking, pseudo-professorial jargon and double-talk from Pound's verse, and what remains? Longfellow's plump, soft, ill-at-ease grandnephew remains...
Though the concept of France as a "link" was promptly and publicly disavowed by Mollet, Pineau continued to plump for greater trust in Russia, with more fervor and eloquence than any other statesman in Western Europe. Last week, on the eve of his departure for the U.S. (his twelfth visit since the war, his first as Foreign Minister), Pineau said that it is wrong to wonder if Soviet leaders sincerely desire peace. "In diplomacy," he observed, "facts are more important than intentions." He went on to argue that the West must take immediate steps to "liquidate" the cold war. Then...
...over, and this week along the roads and trails and bicycle tracks of Northern Rhodesia, thousands of Africans are trudging through the bush to a clump of 20-odd huts called the village of Kasomo. They come from as far as 400 miles away to see and hear a plump, 32-year-old native woman and be baptized by her in the name of God-the black man's God. Her name is Lenshina Mulenga, and her magnetic hold on the people around Kasomo is confounding Christian missionaries there...
...team's strategy is to talk platform as much as they talk candidate. Principal reason: if the Harriman forces can force a strong plank on civil rights at Chicago, they can anger-and possibly drive out-the South, embarrass Stevenson in his position as the peacemaking moderate, and plump hard for a candidate who takes strong stands and can hold the big-city vote in the North, i.e., Averell Harriman. In its long-range thinking, the Harriman team figures that its big platform fight could win for "Honest Ave," much as the 1952 Eisenhower forces clinched the nomination...