Word: flabbier
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Americans may have grown flabbier, but many of them have known the value of exercise since 1981, when TIME put the FITNESS CRAZE on the cover...
...burden to his effectiveness; rather, it was captivating. He embodied the feeling of inevitability that has followed his aspirations for the White House; perhaps he was too cocksure, too patrician, but he was clear in his convictions. Today the passionate youth seems to have given way to a flabbier, saggier candidacy...
...assurances that Americans are not executing a crusade against Islam, nothing conveys American benevolence better than a friendly clown in a yellow jumpsuit. Backed by thousands of employees, McDonald’s is actually out on the streets, humbly serving billions and billions of people, and showing the softer, flabbier side of American imperialism. Ronald delivers this unadorned and unequivocal message to all the world’s people: America loves to see you smile...
Their heads were gray or bald, their bellies were a little thinner or flabbier, and their jowls had dropped. High-collared, broad-fronted shirts had replaced the girls'gaping, sexy V-necks, and the boys, now old men, wore thick bifocals. Some of them were speaking more slowly than before, others laughed more softly, and one or two, tamed by years of being too shy, had resigned themselves to silence. A few seats at the table were empty. But those who remained kept talking and laughing, smiling at each other as if to say, Time has passed, but I have...
...streets or backwoods roads, swimming, stretching, bending, twisting or--come on, just one more--perhaps lifting weights. By now it would appear that all Americans have experienced sweaty epiphanies and are fast on their way to becoming hardy hunks and blooming beauties. The truth, however, is a good deal flabbier...