Word: girth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Place it at the center of our solar system, and its girth ? sporting a radius somewhere between 93 and 139.5 million miles ? would engulf not only the Earth's orbit but probably Mars as well. Bye bye Pathfinder...
...GIRTH OF A NATION Researchers have known that obese parents tend to have overweight kids. Now a study shows that the offspring are twice as likely to wind up as obese adults...
...Talk about RUNNING nowhere fast. Men who consistently jog 40 miles or more a week still put on pounds as they age--about 3.3 lbs. per decade, plus about 3/4 of an inch on their waistlines. How to avert the girth? Tack on more and more miles each year...
...legroom, as measured by the distance between the seat in front of you and the back of your own, has shrunk from 34 in. in coach 20 years ago to an average of 31 in. today. Doesn't sound like much, but remember that the trend in human girth is running opposite: Americans are getting bigger. The cush has been taken out of the cushions too, from 4 in. to 1/2 in., in order to make room for--ahem--more seats. "Transportation is now mass transit," says consultant Boyd. "Consumers are held captive. Travel isn't elegant anymore...
Blake, as Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...