• Jocky Wilson flew the flag that way for more than 15 years. (He sometimes did so literally, pushing his grinning way through the crowds with the Saltire clasped in one plump hand.) He became the first Scot to win the Embassy World Professional Championship in 1982, repeated the feat in 1989, and between 1979 and 1991 he always reached at least the quarter-finals.

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  • The menu changed with his moods as much as the season: red peppers because they had shone at the morning market, sardines for their feel in his plump fingers, the first wild asparagus simply because it was there, and had to be celebrated with his customers.

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  • And they may even help another Arab-American: a forthcoming poll by John Zogby, James's brother, reckons one in six will plump for Ralph Nader.

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  • So we'll plump up the low wages of those in the purely private economy with a growing array of wage supplements.

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  • At Barron's Bakery in Cappoquin I tasted "blaas, " plump rolls now on their way to gaining PGI status, a European Union certification that a product is local, authentic and skillfully made.

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  • Hodgson arrived at Fulham in late December after the sacking of Lawrie Sanchez, with chairman Mohamed Al Fayed ignoring the claims of younger candidates such as John Collins to plump for the widely-respected Englishman who is revered in Uefa coaching circles.

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  • He inspects pink kinki, a smallish plump snapper that is a regular on his menu, simmered in soy sauce.

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  • As viewed through a windscreen, the Hill Country seems full of plump oak trees and well-watered meadows, almost European in aspect.

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  • Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in.

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  • The Butterball turkey was introduced in 1954, the product named for its broad breast and plump, round shape.

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  • The poem's happy Santa ("he was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf") is consistent with authorship in 1822, as claimed by Moore, and not in the time period cited by the Livingston camp, maintains Nickell.

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  • If you are following the markets and the news, you know that with the shortage of grain crops, which plump up our animals, feed prices are on the rise as is the frenzy over the possible decrease in bacon on home tables.

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  • Painted in 1551, before Veronese left the mainland for Venice, it presents an aggrandizing view of a plump, magnificently dressed young man from Vicenza.

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  • Many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, when houses not only provided shelter but also a plump nest egg.

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  • Plump ladies, according to a survey last year by Kurt Salmon Associates, a management consultancy, tend to buy in speciality shops, which account for 29% of sales of larger garments, a bigger share than for other sizes.

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