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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forty Years After Warsaw | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...images: a robust hulk on a scaffold, applying bright Marxist idealizations to the walls of public buildings; a blustery reveler brandishing a revolver to ensure attention; a celebrated philanderer openly displaying his conquests; and a monumental infant seated in a bathtub full of floating toys while Frida lathers his plump breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wound and the Brush | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Bendix shares were worth about $1.4 million. In addition, unless shareholders sue successfully to stop him, he can pull the ripcord on a golden-parachute deal written into the merger agreement. It entitles him to receive his annual $825,000 salary for five years after he steps down, a plump severance package worth more than $4.1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Goodbye | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: The Dartmouth chicken--a plump, black-feathered bird--looked much healthier than the one that attended last Friday's Cornell game at Bright...Harvard is 13-1 in games in which it led after two periods...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Rout Dartmouth, Hold One-Game Ivy Lead | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

Neither do the Democrats, who plan to introduce their own job-creation legislation during the three-week lame-duck session. O'Neill anticipates bringing up a bill to construct more public housing and subsidize mortgages, and a proposal to plump up public repair and maintenance jobs. But given the President's determination to steer clear of conventional remedies for unemployment, even O'Neill's aides refer to the bills as "veto bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Roads for the Unemployed | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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