Word: stoutish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barthélémy Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in the Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases...
...stoutish man disengaged himself from a small conversational pocket and walked over. "McLaughlin's the name, George McLaughlin. I'm Dana's New England sales manager. Have a drink?" He looked around for a second, then asked: "Where are the rest of your boys?" They had wanted a dozen students about to lend an atmosphere for the benefit of the newspapers, and he was plainly disappointed that the Harvards hadn't arrived yet. I explained that they would appear shortly, and he seemed relieved. "Well, help yourself to the liquor and the hors d'oeuvres," he said, edging away...