Word: haunches
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Downward Sliding. Dior's dresses were straight and flat in front, straight and flat behind. They dropped undisturbed from narrow sloping shoulders, passed the waist without a flicker of recognition and settled just south of the bottom. Belts sagged low around the haunch, embracing a girl where there is most to embrace. The plunging neckline, an enticing vista down which men had been peering happily for years, was firmly closed over by featureless cloth. Even evening dresses hovered near the collar bone. Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses...
...where he goes each summer. Familiar things held him most: great buildings honeycombed with lonely rooms, stark streets emptied for the night, railway embankments, movie theaters, brightly lighted lunch rooms, waiting figures at the doors of isolated houses, gas stations on darkening highways, overgrown backyards, and beach cottages squatting haunch to haunch in the chill September wind...
...haunch, the paunch, the thigh...
...novels of the summer. It comfortably exemplifies how little 40 years have changed the rules for those amiable romances, published around the turn of the century, which have worn through several rebindings in provincial libraries. Like them, Miss Field's book has enough carpentry to chair an idle haunch through many hours, enough sincere sentimentality to bring moisture to idle eyes and unguentine to idle hearts. In recognition of changed times, it is tinged with "class-consciousness," but not of a sort to disturb the tenderest digestion...
...invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt, "as he would a capon or a haunch of venison, where there is cut and come again; and pours out upon them the oil of gladness. His tongue drops fatness, and in the chambers of his brain 'it snows of meat and drink...