Word: plumpness
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...importance of the North Korean market to the Chinese helps to explain why officials have been relatively slow to enforce the U.N. sanctions. At Dandong's three-story customs compound, a plump, middle-aged man who calls himself Li and says he is a truck driver gestures toward the 15 or so vehicles waiting to be inspected before driving onto the bridge over the Yalu. "The inspections are a little stricter, but it's really just for show. They poke around a bit and then...
...called Three-Self Church (the church's name refers to its three guiding principles of self-reliance). The cries of hawkers selling vegetables and fruits in the alleyway below drift through the grimy windows, but the worshippers have eyes only for the front of the room, where a plump, middle-aged preacher in a tight gray suit stands at a small lectern. Behind him is a large wooden cross draped with a white cotton cloth. Several pictures of Jesus hang on the walls, and Chinese characters phonetically spelling out Emanuel--"Yi-man-nei-yi"--frame an archway...
Beefy, saturnine and phenomenally wealthy, with a plump red nose caused by the skin disease rhinophyma, Morgan held immense power over the U.S. economy. In a day when there was no Federal Reserve to control the money supply or tweak interest rates, he operated at times as the nation's one-man central bank. By withdrawing his approval from a shaky deal, he could cause a panic. By pouring millions into tottering banks, he could end one. He did more than assemble capital for new ventures. He took over mismanaged companies, installed his own men and supervised operations...
...American diner and the august history of Mr. Potato Head. With a culinary school in town, of course there's good eating. Federal Hill - center of the city's large Italian community - is one of America's best, if least known, Little Italys; try one of the many raviolis - plump with lobster, spinach, basil - at Venda Ravioli on Atwells Avenue, vendaravioli.com. For more innovative fare, head to the Mills Tavern, an 1850s mill turned bistro on North Main Street. Sit at the bar to get bartender Ashlyn's advice and cocktails, and don't miss the side orders: the better...
...more than 17,000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France survived the ravages of history, unseen and undiscovered. Entering it now is like walking into a time capsule, where 12-foot-long bulls and plump yellow horses appear to float across the vaults like religious apparitions. Although the draftsmanship is strikingly Modernist--on exiting the cave in 1940, Pablo Picasso is said to have remarked, "We have invented nothing"--these creations are remnants of the Upper Paleolithic Age, when our hunter-gatherer ancestors acquired the gift of consciousness and a knack for nature drawing...