Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow's mammoth GUM department store a plump, blonde secretary mooned over a Tula portable sewing machine priced at 1,200 rubles,* finally planked down 300 rubles, signed some papers and took it with her. In an Izmailovo radio store a middle-aged man watched the clerk packing an expensive Luxe radio-phonograph and said: "I only had to pay 440 rubles, and we'll have music in our home this very night." Whether cameras, clocks, accordions, motor scooters, outboard motors or silver fox furs, the terms were everywhere the same: 20%-25% down, a service charge...
Atop the graceful, rose-colored Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking last week stood the two plump, 65-year-old men who rule one-third of the earth's people. As lithe girls danced by to the rhythm of bamboo castanets, and nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
Opening the parcel, the prince found a lacquer box. Inside it was another box tightly encircled by adhesive tape. The plump, balding King, 63, and his handsome queen, 55, decided they could not wait for the unsealing, and left to meet with Cambodia's delegation to the United Nations. They had scarcely reached the reception hall when the palace trembled as a bomb blasted the room they had just been in. Prince Vakrivan was blown apart; a palace servant was killed and four others seriously wounded...
...dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts for six different missiles (including the surface-to-surface Mace and the Titan ICBM). more than any other company, making up a plump missile-and-electronics backlog of $600 million. Earnings, on the rise, are expected to hit $4.50 a share this year. Says Bunker: "We were either lucky or smart, and we don't care which. We got in first, and now we've really got our arms around this thing...