Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone. I condemn the system that produced this man. My book is an argument against the bankruptcy of our system." In his book, he adds: "They [the Communist leadership] are all fat-a custom-made fat. They were tough when the revolution was tough, but when the revolution got rotund, they grew with...
...instruments intercept and flick back to Virginia a radio message between Moscow and a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American listens attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda broadside. At an airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 reconnaissance plane with...
...Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands...
...Populist potentates who had done much to lead the poor and exploited into the affluent society, it was time to step down. Grizzled, rotund David Dubinsky, for 34 turbulent years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and bluff, white-thatched James G. Fatten, fiery head of the National Farmers Union for the past quarter-century, both retired last week, turning over their flourishing organizations to less flamboyant men noted more for managerial than messianic talents...
...with the chairmanship of the party he rode (or carried) to power, the Christian Democratic Union. Canny old Konrad Adenauer clung to the job even after he stepped down as Chancellor nearly three years ago at the age of 87, and has used the post to embarrass his rotund successor with anti-Erhard maneuverings inside the party. Last month, Adenauer decided at last to give up the C.D.U. chairmanship, hoped to install a candidate sympathetic to his policies, preferably Interior Minister Paul Lücke, in the balloting at the C.D.U. convention next month...