Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knack for it. The sturdiest section of the team, the offensive line, is the best example. Left Tackle Joe Jacoby, an undrafted giant from Louisville three years ago, is now an all-pro. "Running behind Jacoby," Riggins says, "you can't see anything else." Jeff Bostic, a plump center once cut by the Philadelphia Eagles, was hired several years ago solely to hike for kicks (the regular man had contracted snapper's "yips"). Now Bostic is also starting the Pro Bowl...
...that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...lead balls, had sealed off the area. They were supported by dozens of militia trucks, water cannons and armored personnel carriers. "Disperse!" boomed a shrill voice over a bullhorn. Shortly thereafter, the police attacked the crowd. Militiamen struck indiscriminately, beating an old woman with their sticks and kicking a plump man in work pants who had been knocked down in the melee. Some demonstrators tried to escape into the church. Others were forced into Market Square, where they were doused with ink-blue water fired by water cannons. The blue water had a double purpose: to damage the clothing...
DIED. Walter Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...
Suddenly, as Wygodska stepped away from the microphone, a plump, blond woman began elbowing her way up onto the stage and touched her shoulder. Wygodska turned and the two women shrieked with joy, embracing in recognition as tears streamed down their faces. It was the first time since the day of liberation in May 1945 that Wygodska had seen Zosia Piekorska, 55, one of her closest friends during the two years they spent to gether in concentration camps in Poland. Recalled Piekorska, now from Richmond, Va.: "We suffered together, we were hungry together. We were hoping together." Said Wygodska...