Word: plumpness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capital of Upper Volta to go through a ceremony that has changed not one jot in centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis XIV, the Sun King...
...Come indoors," said plump, good-hearted Yvette Bleuse on that November evening in 1944. "You can sleep here. There's no sense in spending your money on a hotel." Wayne Powers, an awkward, bashful G.I. who was AWOL from his Quartermaster unit, gratefully accepted her offer-and stayed for 14 years...
...long can the quiz shows last?" gloomed Master of Ceremonies Jack (Twenty-One) Barry one day last week, in the midst of staging an unemployment insurance debut as a song-and-dance man at Atlantic City's half-packed 500 Club. Plump and 40, Barry danced stiffly, told gags, talked his way through songs, though he is no Rex Harrison, and made a brief pass at a piano. Actually, Barry need not worry about his future in TV's quiz world. This summer the major networks have unleashed no fewer than ten quiz giveaway shows to fight their...
...January of this year Sary was packed off into gilded exile as Cambodia's Ambassador to Britain. Sary's entourage: his formidable No. 1 wife, Em, a plump suffragette, and their five children, ranging in age from 8 to 18; Tep Kanary, the young beauty queen, Sam's No. 2 wife and No. 1 mistress; the other beauty, Iv Eng Seng, was either No. 3 wife or No. 2 mistress. To get around British sensibilities, Iv Eng Seng was listed as a governess. Whose business was it that she was also pregnant? Sam Sary called on Queen...
Popping from the train in East Berlin like a plump orange from a vending machine, Khrushchev reviewed a goose-stepping Wehrmacht-uniformed honor guard. At his side appeared dour Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky, whose attendance had not been announced in advance but who explained that he was "spending a leave" in East Germany...