Word: flabbier
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...having a President who is really into it too is great. His body is evidence enough he takes care of himself. We wouldn't have asked Johnson or Nixon." Did questions of propriety arise? The magazine originally wanted a more strictly personal account, without advice to fellow, flabbier Americans. "We thought that was too self-centered," says David Gergen, a Reagan aide...
...just a "hike with a purpose," an opportunity to stroll or picnic. For others, it is a madcap race in which speed afoot is as important as accuracy of map reading. A fast runner might plot a lengthier indirect course over clear ground, whereas a canny, perhaps flabbier orienteer might take the shorter, riskier route of a direct bearing...
...professor, I can testify to two facts: one is that all our final decisions on the failures were unanimous; the other is that no one could have pushed or tricked me into agreeing to a decision in these cases that I thought was wrong. Maybe you had a flabbier professor in mind...
...most of them, at least, are of a secular rather than a religious character." Sunday, said Warren, has come to be "a time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like." Seldom has an issue of liberty been argued on flabbier grounds...
...said goodbye to Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright at Corregidor and the man who now returned to the Philippines. He had been a good general then; now he was one of the great. Outwardly he was the same colorful, often theatrical soldier, visibly aged since December 1941, a little flabbier around the jowls and beltline, half bald, with a brushed-over lock of hair which he selfconsciously stroked when his cap was off. But his military stature had grown vastly. He still spoke sound military theory in rounded periods, full of historical allusions. But theory had now been backed...