Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pears take longest) at a drying temperature of about 145°F., finally emerge a tenth of their original size and are stored in a cool, dark place in moisture-proof jars, boxes or bags (heavy waxed paper is good). Before cooking, they are soaked in water until plump (usually about two hours...
...that were the equivalent of boys' gangs almost any where, had got out of hand: they had robbed and used their knives on some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
Because there have been "no debuts or social functions to speak of" for a year now, plump, persimmonish, seventyish Juliana Cutting retired last week as Manhattan's No. 1 social arranger and secretary. For nearly 20 years she has been ordering smilax, keeping the wrong people out of parties...
...miles, stopped in 16 lands;* he would go on to India and China. He had chatted with soldiers in Britain, given alms in Malta, scanned the front in Tunisia, prayed in Jerusalem. Yet he had spent many hours in secret talk with statesmen and dignitaries, and around his plump, energetic figure swirled a fog of rumor and speculation. In that fog last week the Allied and the Axis world thought it could see great significance: the Vatican expected and desired a United Nations victory...
...Plump, placid, matronly Mrs. Gertrude Berg scarcely knew what to make of it. The august Princeton University Library wanted to salt away the scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...