Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grease & Gravy. When he later became "Pear Bottom" and "Jelly Belly," he concluded that he must, in self-defense, "begin eating smaller meals and doing calisthenics in my bedroom." When he failed to watch his own grooming, he was quickly pulled up short: "Once I incautiously pointed out a grease...
The Miserable War. A yard from the summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some...
Humor of this sort seldom shakes the belly. Instead it shakes the mind, working on it like a picador on a bull.
That he did keep it together was something of a miracle. Every plague a commander could suffer fell upon him. The vainglorious Charles Lee led a shameful retreat at Monmouth, and after being court-martialed, he slandered Washington up & down the states. Congress fretted and fumbled; its appropriations, snapped Quartermaster...
The tuatara is not outstandingly intelligent; its brain, only about the size of a green pea, is hardly a brain at all. When strolling leisurely, it drags its belly and tail slowly over the ground. When chasing a spider or a grasshopper, it rears up on all four legs, like...