Word: rotund
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...excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with a drooping mustache. Looking noticeably more rotund, Walesa, 39, had come home...
...Defense Minister's rotund body swayed as he approached the podium to answer. "It is a dark day for all of us," he said. A Communist Party member shouted, "Who sent the murderers? Who sent the murderers?" In a 90-minute speech, during which he was frequently interrupted by hecklers, Sharon insisted that leaders of the government did not imagine "in our blackest dreams that hundreds of innocents would be massacred in Beirut." But he admitted that the Israeli army had helped the Christian forces to plan the operation and had allowed them to enter the refugee camps in order...
...pedantical cats, allegorical cats and metaphorical cats are assembling. They may be masquerading as Broadway performers-the nearly anonymous acting-singing-dancing dynamos who pump the American musical machine-but for as long as their stamina and luck hold out, they are the American Cats. Big or small, rotund or svelte, white or black or Oriental, a company of graceful felines is preparing to prance and caterwaul on the Winter Garden stage in a 2½-hr. extravaganza of song and dance (with hardly a word of spoken dialogue) that is the most highly touted foreign musical ever...
...technology and training. When speculation first appeared about the age and inferiority of Soviet equipment, the Kremlin uncharacteristically went off like a firecracker. There were angry rebuttals, flurries of military meetings. Leonid Zamyatin, the Kremlin's chief propagandist, went on Moscow television to wash away doubts with his rotund tones. General Yevgeni Yurasov, deputy head of Soviet air defense, gathered up his experts and headed to the Bekaa Valley to study the scorched debris...
...Ndebele tribe, was just one of several recent signs that the uneasy truce among the Ndebeles, Mugabe's majority Shonas and Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last February, Mugabe dismissed Nkomo from his Cabinet post as Minister Without...