Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stately, plump...gurgling face...equine in its length...hair, grained and hued like pale oak...shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate...great searching eyes...hollow beneath his underlip...curling shaven lips...white glittering teeth...Cranly...
...executives in other businesses might elect to keep then" products off the market until prices rose. But the feeders cannot readily do that: the critters go on gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional weight is mostly unwanted fat. About all the operators can do is go on selling the steers when they reach optimum slaughter weight and hope for a price rebound later. That could happen in about six months, to the housewife's chagrin: there...
That faith is nowhere more evident than in the U.S.S.R., which has been beset in recent years with controversial sensitives. One, Ninel Kulagina, was appraised as capable of causing objects to float in midair. As Martin Gardner notes, "She is a pretty, plump, dark-eyed little charlatan who took the stage name of Ninel because it is Lenin spelled backward. She is no more a sensitive than Kreskin, and like that amiable American television humbug, she is basically show biz." Indeed, Ninel has been caught cheating more than once by Soviet Establishment scientists...
...through that miserable night I saw on the ceiling plump Indian women pouring chicha into small plastic glasses...
...hotel in which I was staying towered above the humble buildings of the Indian Quarters. Early one afternoon, I began walking through the narrow streets of the marketplace. Each block had its own special goods on sale. The first street I entered was the grain district. Along both sides plump, dark-faced women, wearing hats that looked like British bowlers, were sitting behind open sacks filled with flours and cereals of all different colors and textures. I wandered through the crowds that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching...