Word: plumpness
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...Jonathan Pollard, 31, a plump, balding Navy counterintelligence analyst, was accused of receiving nearly $50,000 for selling military information to Israel, a trusted ally that officially bans any spying against the U.S. His wife Anne Henderson-Pollard, 25, was later brought in on lesser charges...
...Sichuan is plump with signs of progress, there are also constant reminders of how primitive the province remains. The countryside is redolent of night soil, or human excrement, a time-honored method of fertilization. Carts are still pulled by men in harness. If a village is lucky enough to have a telephone, it is usually the hand-crank variety...
...poignant picture, not least of all because the child, plump, sleeping with his mouth open, would be dead soon afterward. He died at 4 o'clock one morning in the motel room occupied by his mother, of malnutrition, or dehydration, or congenital defects--the precise cause is no doubt listed somewhere in the medical records...
...about art, Botero and a friend traveled by motorcycle to the south of France, where they hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings and drawings depicting the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq. The canvases - including Abu Ghraib 43, which shows a bruised, hooded detainee...
...Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey before being conquered by the Romans. Last July, he was taking a break from the valley to explore an enormous ancient temple near the central village of Starosel. But when the 62-year-old archaeologist, a short, plump man known as Bulgaria's Indiana Jones, got word that looters had been spotted in the valley - at the site of a mid-5th century B.C. tomb near Kazanlak, 170 km east of Sofia - he dropped what he was doing and rushed to the scene. Whatever was in that tomb, Kitov...