Word: flabbing
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...notoriously difficult to please. Cigarette dangling from his hand and his Tiny Tim-style ringlets bouncing on his shoulders, he strides to the middle of the floor to show them how the steps should be done. Morris, 35, is tall and bulky. There is more than a hint of flab around his waist, an authentic beer belly, the result of a , prodigious thirst that can cause him to put away as many as four bottles within an hour. No one in the room looks less like a dancer. But as he performs the individual steps, they suddenly coalesce into...
Nationally, scouting faces an equally rugged journey. Like the 17,500 hikers who passed through Philmont this past summer, the highly traditional movement has been forced in recent years to shed some flab and check its compass. Static enrollments five years ago persuaded the national office in Irving, Texas, to commission a marketing study, which concluded that the Boy Scouts were dangerously out of step with post-1960s America; the public still imagined uniformed do-gooders who tie knots and help old folks across the street. One solution: the Scout Handbook was revised to show more minority scouts in action...
...Soviet investment toward consumer needs and present it as a package of breathtaking diplomacy. Like the politician that he is, Gorbachev seeks to protect his power by producing triumphs on the world stage and the payoffs of perestroika at home. Offering a modest troop cut that would trim unnecessary flab from the armed forces neatly serves both goals...
...Atlas act to impress independent-minded voters. The candidates must also appeal to party loyalists who dominate the nomination contest. These activists in most Northern states lean leftward -- feminine as Caddell has defined it -- and pressure national candidates to toe their issue lines. The result can turn muscle to flab...
Scoring high in fat and flab, low in strength, endurance and flexibility, American children are disgracefully unfit, say experts...