Word: rotund
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...SHARPTON Rotund preacher's hunger strike not in vain: Navy will halt Vieques bombing, he sheds...
...state. And that gave the Rwandans the idea of marching on the capital together with Uganda and Angola to oust Mobutu and install a government that would stop the cross-border insurgencies that menaced all three. Thus was born the presidency of Laurent Kabila, for it was to the rotund Maoist warlord that the Angolans, Rwandans and Ugandans looked when forced to quickly find an indigenous face on a "rebellion" that had been something closer to an invasion...
...voice rising in pitch too quickly to sustain the rest of the speech, he successfully develops the attention-starved, almost crazed qualities the part requires. Stephen Fritsch '03, whose Irish accent is nearly impeccable, overcomes the fact that he looks nothing at all like Shaw and becomes the endearing rotund, white-haired, and belligerent playwright...
...Wayne's school--Bernadette became better able to help her son. Last summer Kevin Sibley, a mentor at a local YMCA, picked Wayne to join Sports Scholars, a physically demanding daily program for young boys. In a journal that Sibley required, Wayne drew an early picture of himself: sweaty, rotund, sad. At summer's end, a new doodle showed a beaming, muscular boy in a superhero's cape. By his November visit to OWL, Wayne had shed the dark skin on his neck--and lost...
...Albright's guest house, they walked us down a long corridor blessed with a thick, hideous lime green carpet, marble columns and enormous wood doors to a foyer with a large window facing the lake. An enormous, awful mural depicted a stormy, frothing sea crashing against striated rocks while rotund seagulls winged overhead. The next 15 minutes passed amusingly, with the Great Leader's protocol entourage shifting us from one location then to another in the desperate hope of making themselves comfortable with our presence in his midst...