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...Bottoms. To the sorrow of the thigh-heavy set, the new pant length is as brief and close-cut as possible. The once-dependable half-skirt (which could be tugged down to conceal an entire stretch of flab) is hard to find; in its place, for those who choose to accept the dare, is an abbreviated leotard which technically covers but scarcely conceals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Suiting Up | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Youth Physical Fitness conference in Washington, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, 42, recent conqueror (along with some 500,000 others last year) of Japan's Mount Fuji, professed himself shocked at America's scandalous flab surplus. "I was out in a farm state* a few days ago, and I found that the women generally had a firmer grip than the men in a handshake," said Udall, who need not worry about the crunch in his own clasp. "I think that is a commentary on conditions today." Something had to give before Marilyn Monroe, 35, could snuggle into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...classics. No matter how dull a boy is, he may stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each boy a brand-new shilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Blues | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...only thing Universal intended to leave the audience were a wet hankie, Bright Victory might be written down as a success of sorts. But there is a lot of real meat buried under the flab here and the producers had the material to make an excellent documentary...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

...wear trunks without tops at the beach. Theoretically, they must cover their chests while walking to the beach, but MDC will not enforce this rule unless bathers are so robust that ungainly folds o flab distort the midriff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

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