Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women. They have to grow up emotionally. After they've kicked, they're like children, and they have to be told to turn off the lights, flush the toilet, keep their fingers out of lamp sockets." Such, for example, is Synanon's youngest member, a plump girl of 19 who was trapped by narcotics at 13. After eight months at Synanon, she finally had the courage to raise a shaky voice to sing with a four-man musical combo that is a feature of Saturday night socials. Her emotional triumph won a thunderous ovation from the crowd...
...ghosts walked in Rome, as 200 admirers gathered to hear British Blackshirt Sir Oswald Mosley, 64, plump for a fascist Europe and African apartheid. In the dreamworld process of carving out a united and expanded Europe independent of cold war blocs, Mosley announced that "South Africa, part of Rhodesia, the Sahara and Algeria would belong to us. Blacks, if they like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound...
...doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...
...cheer was restored to the room as Mrs. Khrushchev came through the door, wearing one of her fashion-setting dresses by GUM, and followed by her daughter, a vivacious, plump girl...
...Lenten pastoral letter, Britain's William Cardinal Godfrey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, suggested that 1) Catholic families observe Ember Friday (Feb. 24) by fasting and donating the money thus saved to relief of the "hungry and starving," and 2) pets be fed with less expensive foods. "A plump and pampered poodle might run all the more gaily after a reduced diet, simpler fare, and perhaps after having been denied a visit to the hair stylist. If this suggestion seems odd, turn to the third chapter of the Book of Jonas, in which we read that, at the thought...