Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less satisfying than it is annoying to U.S. commanders, who are spoiling for a fight they are confident they can win-and for an end to the suspense as to what the Reds will do next. The North Vietnamese eminence grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world's foremost practitioner of the dark art of insurgency warfare...
...what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway's top musical hit of the season, and 40-year-old Angela Lansbury, the woman all moviegoers remember as a worn, plump old harridan with a snake pit for a mouth, is the liveliest dame to kick up her heels since Carol Channing opened in Hello, Dolly! three years...
Juan found himself a good teacher: Blanche Laverne Johnson, a plump, elderly woman who lived near Candlestick Park. "Mama" Johnson took Marichal and Matty Alou into her home as boarders, force-fed them English, lectured them on "Getting Along in America." "If we didn't pay attention to what she said," recalls Alou, "she'd grab her dish mop and give us a swat. She'd tell us, 'You want to make good in this country, you learn to speak English. Nobody makes shaving commercials in Spanish.' " Lonely and homesick, Marichal played Dominican records over...
...World War II Navy veteran and a partner in a window-shade manufacturing firm. He affords two cars (a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon and a 1961 Rambler) and a color television set, last summer traveled to Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. His wife Elaine, 45, a plump, outspoken little lady, likes to season her children with such salt-of-the-earth advice as "You'll never get anything you want unless you work...
...year ago, Hugo was content to munch the wild grasses and reeds along the Kurasini bank. Then one night he began feasting on the sweet potatoes, maize stalks and plump cabbages grown by nearby farmers. Before long, villagers were grabbing up their machetes and spears and shouting for Hugo's hide. With his speed (up to 30 m.p.h.) and sharp sense of smell, Hugo managed to elude his pursuers. Yet it seemed only a matter of time before he would be caught...