Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scheduled to follow Bayar was former Premier Adnan Menderes, a hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked wreck of his once plump and sleek self. In a barely audible voice, he earlier told the court he had been kept in solitary confinement for more than four months, had been allowed only 27 minutes with a defense lawyer two days before the trial. Complained Menderes: "My nerves are shattered." The main charge against him was "activities contrary to the constitution." But the first specific was that he had fathered a child by a Turkish opera singer, and then had given orders to kill...
Transition. In visiting 237 schools in 23 states, Conant found wide disagreement over where to fit grades 7-9 in a school system. Some communities keep grades 7 and 8 in elementary school, some plump for a six-year high school, and still others hold that the separate three-year junior high school gives combustible half-adolescents a chance to grow at their own pace. In reality, says Conant, the junior high often becomes "a replica of the senior high school with its attendant social pressures." Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely...
Look-Alike. The bank's least hidden asset is its first president, a plump, articulate Chilean named Felipe Herrera. Once a Socialist, and at 38 still prone to consider banking economics as mere means to social ends, Herrera has labored nonstop to get the bank going ever since he was elected last February. By his own methodical count, he has been on the road 92 days, visited 19 countries, explained the bank to 18 Presidents, 3 Presidents-elect, 85 government ministers, 42 political party leaders ("while gaining six pounds and losing seven shirts and five handkerchiefs...
...summer's day in 1848, a plump, hoopskirted housewife stood up in Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y. and read the eighth of eleven resolutions to the delegates at the first U.S. women's rights convention. With her blonde sausage curls bobbing in emphasis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read: "It is the duty of the women of the country to secure for themselves the sacred right of the elective franchise." The delegates were aghast at such a daring notion. "Why Lizzie," cried Quakeress Lucretia Mott, "thee will make us ridiculous...
...translated and read in a heavy accent. Her audience of skeptics could not understand a word. Then she had pictures flashed on the screen showing before-and-after views of her patients. An old man so emaciated that he looked like a death's head appeared later with plump cheeks. Obviously he had been well fed in the meantime, but Dr. Asian attributed his improvement to her regimen of giving thrice-weekly injections of procaine (better known by one of its trade names, Novocain). The applause for Dr. Asian was polite but weak...