Word: flabbing
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...been the underdog before, but never like this. Even as he boasts, some of the innate confidence of Cassius Clay is gone. Ali believes he has performed a "miracle" by losing 30 pounds. What he may discover, however, is that this fat was covering up an untoned body. The flab has disappeared, but that does not mean that the strength and reflexes have returned. Ali says he is in the best shape of his career. At 38, this simply cannot...
Desideria's natural mother was a prostitute who sold her to Viola, who fluctuates between being an overattentive parent and an insatiable bisexual. Left alone, Desideria fills her loneliness with autoeroticism and calories. Viola puts the girl on a diet and discovers a voluptuous beauty beneath the flab. Reborn, Desideria hears a voice that commands her to attack her mother's values and property and save her virginity for a militant radical. At first the rebellion is symbolic, a form of childish Dada ("Practically the whole of our life is a tissue of unreasoned respects, of unfounded taboos...
Like an aging heavyweight gone to flab, U.S. industry has fallen behind some of its world-class competitors. Many steel, rubber, auto and other essential plants have become outmoded because not enough capital has been invested in them. If the nation is to restore its technological edge, U.S. industry will have to modernize by building new factories and closing inefficient plants...
...shots of derring-do afield, badgered by friends, family and physicians to stop smoking and start shaping up, armchair athletes all over America in far greater numbers than before are becoming the weekend warriors of sport. But the years, and the gin and the weed and the encroaching flab, have taken their toll. The net result can be painful, and sometimes lethal...
...half of American adults then weighed 10% or more over the ideal for their height?a situation that the new data seem to show has grown even worse. In other words, despite the growing number of joggers, tennis nuts, weight watchers and organic-food freaks, the struggle against excess flab is not only uphill but getting steeper all the time...