Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brugnoni, the rotund Field Marshall of the Harvard Young Americans for Rabbit Extermination, stated, however, that the new cold wave would "probably drive the little bunnies back in their holes, unless of course we blast them first...
...genial, rotund man of 57, Sachar has been able to attract both brains and money to his campus. Though the university had no alumni until 1952, groups of "foster alumni" sprang up in dozens of cities across the U.S., gave to the new university as generously as if it had been their own alma mater. Gradually the faculty grew to 160, the student body to 1,070, the annual budget to nearly $3,000,000. Around the great castle ultramodern buildings arose, including three separate chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
Last week, with the situation thus stalemated, bustling, rotund Ichiro Kono, whose official title as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry serves to disguise the fact that he is one'of the brainiest men in the Hatoyama government, invited priests and mayor alike to Tokyo to talk the whole thing over. "With 8,000,000 tourists coming to Kyoto yearly," he pointed out, "nobody's coffers need be empty." Let the temples charge their admission, he suggested; let the city collect its tax. Then let the temples put in for heavy tax deductions against the national government...
...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...
Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France's famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris...