Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they found the 39-year-old divorcee dead, her body blotched with 251 bruises. While they questioned Richard, Charlotte Millionaire George King Cutter, 48, drove up and introduced himself as "a friend of the family." Cutter, a real estate developer, admitted that he had spent the previous evening with plump, attractive Mrs. Nycum aboard a converted Post Office bus (complete with bar, bath and bedroom) that he kept parked in an abandoned Army warehouse on the grounds of Charlotte Municipal Airport. Cutter said he had slapped Mrs. Nycum, but insisted that he had not killed her. An autopsy left...
...Presidium in a crucial power struggle. As befitted a low-ranking delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Molotov stood at the station in a crowd of Soviet women and children. "We must get together," said Khrushchev, unabashed, as he reached out to shake Molotov's plump hand. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had been Molotov's underling for years, blinked in the bright sun and smiled a frozen smile. "Nice weather we're having," he said...
First to arrive this Friday will be Nikita Khrushchev and his plump, matronly wife Nina, aboard a special train from Moscow. After meeting Austrian officials and inspecting an honor guard, the Khrushchevs will motor to suburban Purkersdorf, where the Russian embassy maintains a comfortable villa. Next morning, by jet from France, President Kennedy and Jacqueline are scheduled to touch down on Vienna's Schwechat airfield. After exchanging amenities with Austria's President Adolf Schärf, the Kennedy motorcade will wind through the heart of Vienna and to the U.S. embassy residence in suburban Heitzing, an iron-fenced...
...impossibility of reproducing this charming collection here for it is impossible to describe, in mere prose, the delightful abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water...
...before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled shotgun shattered the morning, and the bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten to shoot more than one in a lifetime, so elusive that only the most persistent hunter ever brings home his quota...