Word: thickset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobile air compressor towed by a dump truck suddenly broke loose, lurched across the Long Island Expressway, crunched into the side of a grey 1959 Cadillac. Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...
CARLO BERGONZI, 33, a thickset, muscular Italian tenor who paces the stage as he winds up for a big aria, is well worth hearing when he finally stands still and left loose. His voice is warm, strong and sure. Good tenors are never in plentiful supply; with Fellow Newcomers Labo and Gedda, Bergonzi makes the Met unusually rich in the tenor department...
...December sun glanced through the big picture windows in the living room of Harry Holt's 13-room farm home perched on a hill near Creswell, Ore. There sat Holt, 52, a thickset man with a ragged mustache and shaggy eyebrows, and his wife Bertha, 53, her unrouged face a picture of contentment. Around the couple cuddled eight button-eyed children, aged 3 to 5. Their thin voices mingled with the Holts' as they sang...
...Greying, thickset delegates in Western business suits, some wearing white gauze masks against the cold-catching season, tramped heavily across the stage to drop their white ballots under the full glare of spotlights and the eyes of Japan's 300,000 TV set owners...
Died. Rupert Hughes, 84, thickset, jowly Jack-of-all-literary-trades, who wrote some 50 books, including a candid, controversial biography, George Washington (three volumes, 1926, '27, '30) that "attacked the fables about him . . . cheap substitutes for great achievements," cranked out dozens of short stories, movie scripts, plays, musical compositions; in Los Angeles...