Word: rotundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certifiable American eccentrics. So says David Weeks, a clinical psychologist at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, who has just published a scientific study of 130 British oddballs, past and present. Among them: Samuel Johnson, the rotund 18th century author who amused friends by rolling down steep hills, and Prince Charles, who talks to plants, if not to his wife Princess Diana. The British study, however, is only a warm-up for a nearly completed analysis of 800 American eccentrics. The tentative conclusion: the U.S. has displaced Britain as the uncontested eccentricity capital of the world. Declares Weeks, a native...
President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan was so unlike his famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week...
...anything slowed down Herbert Hoover's Quercus alba, standing a proud 60 ft. In fact, the Hoover white oak has grown rotund, reminding visitors of the fellow who planted it 56 years ago. It makes you wonder if there is some mystic force in Irvin Williams' 18 acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum...
...ground. Starting Quarterback Tony Eason left the fray uninjured in the second quarter following no completions. By the finish, Collins led all New England rushers with 4 yds. Craig James, who had overrun the Miami Dolphins for the conference championship, gained 3 ft. On a goalline galumph, rotund Rookie William ("Refrigerator") Perry beat the bookies' 12- to-1 odds by scoring a Bear touchdown; against all expectations, Walter ("Sweetness") Payton was shut out. For stripping two fumbles, Chicago Defensive End Richard Dent added to his ongoing salary fight the negotiable distinction of Most Valuable Player...
...rotund secretary, her gray hair in a grandmotherly bob, apparently infiltrated the country by taking the name of a West Berlin woman who had moved to France. West German officials say that photographs taken at the time show conclusively that the spy and the real Luneburg are different people. When Luneburg underwent a security check last year, she conveniently forgot to include a picture of herself...