Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celery is always wonderful," said Mrs. Mildred Mackenzie, a plump, pleasant housewife. "In midsummer, our delphiniums will grow nine feet high." With matronly zest, she waved round her garden, still deep in snow. "You never tasted vegetables as good as the ones we grow, and you should see our poppies and sweet peas...
Among the bleak, soot-smudged buildings in Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry...
...Fierce Advocate." In Minister Jean Letourneau, France has a well-oiled bearing, guaranteed not to run hot under pressure. Round, balding head, plump, round face exuding a brown cheroot beneath a small mustache, round eyes behind round tortoise-shell spectacles, 44-year-old Letourneau looks like the banker and businessman he was trained to be. He looks soft, but in fact is as smooth and hard as milled steel. During the German occupation he helped run clandestine resistance newspapers...
Across the street, light filtered through the shutters on the second-floor suite of Madame Nahas, a plump, attractive woman of 40, and great friend and business partner of huge, fleshy Serag el Din. Policeman Imam Bey rang the bell. Serag el Din finally appeared, opened the door. Imam Bey produced a written order: by government decree, Serag el Din was ordered into enforced confinement on the 780-acre estate of his wife (a member of Egypt's biggest landowning family), 36 miles out of Cairo...
...legion and the experts suffered a mild shock. Gabrielle, now in her 70s and living near Los Angeles, announced that she was definitely not the girl in the picture. As for the little boy, it couldn't be Coco because he was never that plump. Gabrielle even wondered whether the painting might be a forgery. "Even the Louvre," said she, "can sometimes be fooled by clever people...