Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject chosen for debate was rotund Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard's program to control West Germany's economic boom and accompanying wage-price spiral. The debate took the form of a few unctuous commonplaces. Said one of the 150 West Berliners in the audience: "They come to us up here and squabble about their own wealth...
...town of Pont-l'Evéque were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison wilderness paradise enow...
...Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost 20? at Ebbets Field...
...first rehearsal last week, Conductor Kostelanetz bounded off the podium and congratulated rotund Composer Grofé. "You really started something," said Grofé. Actually, whether the result was more effective as music or just enthusiastically collected noise, it was "Kosty" himself who started it. For seven years he has dreamed of channeling the Hudson musically, last fall commissioned Grofé in New York City. Grofé read a book about the river, recalled some river lore of his own (at six months he rode an Albany boat for two weeks to escape an epidemic on the Lower East Side...
Talking Big. When Malenkov took over, Rakosi was ordered to get away from the salami. He yielded the premiership to rotund Imre Nagy (rhymes with budge), another oldtime Hungarian Communist, who was a Hungarian language broadcaster in Moscow during World War II. Nagy talked big: "The decision to make Hungary a country of steel and iron was an expression of megalomaniac economic policy." Past faults of the party he ascribed to "one-man leadership which relied on a narrow circle, and the silencing of criticism and self-criticism." Nagy ordered more consumer goods, relaxed police controls and let the collectivization...