Word: rotund
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...runs only 35 days, and his mandate is hardly precise. He is empowered to organize new elections for the presidency of France, and he must get along with the government of Premier Maurice Couve de Murville until De Gaulle's elected successor is chosen. Yet Alain Poher, a rotund, 60-year-old moderate and veteran of a lifetime in French politics, undertook his duties as interim President of France last week with a sure sense of purpose and resolve that surprised and annoyed the Gaullists...
...opened the congress with a short televised speech. He appeared robust and rotund despite his 75 years. The main address was delivered by his chosen successor, Defense Minister Lin Piao (see box). Hunched on a stool, the frail Lin, 61, read a thick manuscript that analyzed the results of the Cultural Revolution and set out the newest orders for the party. After Lin's address, the 1,512 delegates split up into working groups to discuss Lin's report...
Died. Jack Adams, 72, longtime ice-hockey great, both as a player and as a general manager; of a heart attack in Detroit. Rotund as a hand grenade and just as explosive, Adams earned his reputation as a slick-skating center for the Toronto Arenas (forerunners of the Maple Leafs); he demonstrated his managerial skills by collecting young talent for the Detroit Red Wings (he got Gordie Howe at 17) and leading his team to twelve N.H.L. titles (including a record seven in a row from 1949 to 1955) and seven Stanley Cup victories...
Despite the air-conditioned comfort of the pine-paneled hearing room in Nassau's Supreme Court building, the rotund witness mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling...
...alone. I condemn the system that produced this man. My book is an argument against the bankruptcy of our system." In his book, he adds: "They [the Communist leadership] are all fat-a custom-made fat. They were tough when the revolution was tough, but when the revolution got rotund, they grew with...