Word: rotund
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...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
...show was sponsored by Mexico's culture-conscious President Manuel Avila Camacho, who last year decreed an annual national prize for arts and sciences. (1945's prize went to an author, rotund little Dr. Alfonso Reyes, for his Criticism in the Athenian Age.) This year's 20,000 pesos ($4,140) will be awarded to an artist, plus 5,000 pesos each for the best example of painting, engraving, sculpture and architecture on exhibition...
...Matter of Semantics. Seven weeks ago a delegation of 120 Russians came down from their zone north of the 38th parallel. They were led by rotund Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who said: "The Soviet people warmly support ... a free way of life ... for the Korean people." Inside the pillared grey walls of Seoul's Duk Soo Palace, General Shtykov and four top comrades began a series of talks with five U.S. officers, led by strapping Major General Archibald V. Arnold...
...Short, rotund Professor Paul Joseph Sachs, a present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...
...remaining snag was the presence of British troops in Indonesia. To liquidate this problem, Clark Kerr shepherded The Netherlands' rotund Premier, Willem Schermerhorn, across the Channel for a chat with Clement Attlee. From the talks came quick results and a crisp communique: "An agreement was reached as regards the measures still necessary to liquidate the war with Japan and the gradual withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by Dutch forces...