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Word: flabbier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: The Final Exam | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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