Word: overweighting
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...questionnaire showed that the athletic participant herself tall, overweight, and uncoordinated, while the non-participants were more self-assured, assessing themselves as of medium height and weight, and graceful bearing. Mrs. Pillinger noted that not one 'Cliffie checked the box titled "underweight...
Womens' magazines have volunteered their own explanations. But their compulsive eaters usually weigh 250 or more, and suffer from Lack of Love, compounded geometrically by Affection for Food, and ultimately cured by Will Power. The magazines have little value for the slightly overweight college girl, who alternately stuffs and starves herself, and who spends indecently large amounts of time simply thinking about food...
...doctors have recognized two universal ailments: Doppelkinnepidemie, double-chin epidemic, and Hängebauch, or bellyhang. The majority of Germans, from newborn babes to Cabinet ministers, are fatter today than at any other time in this century. A top dietetic authority estimates that 20% of all West Germans are overweight. In a new book titled Grow Thin, but How?, Dr. Andreas Duttler warns: "Corpulence is the dark side of the Economic Miracle...
...Overweight in luggage but light of heart, one out of every six American adults will be off this winter for what the brochures have promised will be "a heavenly holiday in the sun." If the adult is a woman, vacation preparation will have involved more than permission from the boss and the credit manager at the bank. Long and tedious hours in big city department stores and teeny suburban specialty shoppes will have gone into assembling the proper holiday wardrobe. And once on the decks of the gleaming cruise ship, out beneath the swaying palms or on the beach under...
Gigot. A nice sentimental comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays a Parisian janitor and looks like an overweight hippopotamus impersonating the poor little match girl...