Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly elected president of the Japan Chemical Society, Masaharu Doi, 68, speaks for an industry that has increased its production 500% (to $2.9 billion a year) since 1950. But shy, plump Lawyer Doi, an expert on the proper chanting of ancient Japanese ballads, speaks with an even more powerful voice as the de facto chief of the most flourishing of Japan's former zaibatsu (family trusts). Propelled into the presidency of the Sumitomo Chemical Co. in 1947 when Occupation purges eliminated all his seniors, Doi got around U.S. directives to split up the zaibatsu by organizing the White Water...
Last week a plump Montclair, N.J., housewife was working hard at closing the string gap: aided by a Guggenheim grant, Carleen Maley Hutchins was devising the members of a new family of seven stringed instruments-including a vertical viola...
...inflation has been stopped-and that the Administration is committed to keep it that way. All the debate about increased foreign competition, about gold outflow, and the narrowing of profit margins that the steel hassle aroused made it clear to the nation that the green years of automatic growth, plump profits and U.S. dominance of world business were at least temporarily ended...
...with the generous cooperation of" assorted hotels, railroads and steamship lines that seem to gain in glamour upon being transferred to film. This time Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman, an ever-lovin' couple from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon was. He was the guy that had the same trouble with the English that Custer...
There were two Ring Lardners that counted-or, at any rate, a plump one and a half. There was the man whose best stories are superb revelations of character, the lord of vernacular, the laureate of dull lives, crass hopes and mean minds. The second Lardner that counted was a fellow of short nights and wild swoops and demented plunges, of parody and nonsense, of non sequiturs that on occasion proved knockout blows. Perhaps the most inspired of these-a daunted parent's reply to a child's bedeviling question-provided the title for Shut Up, He Explained...