Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho shifted his paunch and glowered at the is-foot stuffed alligator across the room. "The man responsible for this mess is Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
...general hitched up his paunch, went on berating Guatemala's President. "Ever since Arévalo took office," he rumbled, "that man has caused trouble in the Caribbean. Now we've got a hell of a problem brewing around Central America, and something has got to be done to stop it. Look at that Figueres, a tool of Arévalo. God knows what he's up to now that he's got hold of Costa Rica. And all those Dominican and Nicaraguan exiles. I wonder if those birds in all those plots realize that Central...
...nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever imagine their college without...
...Ankles. Lou Boudreau (rhymes with mud row) himself was the red-hottest Indian of them all. Despite a slight banquet-season paunch, Lou was batting a phenomenal .519 from his unorthodox crouch and was leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished...
...drawing may be noted briefly. It is a portrait, on page 21, of two obese rodents of an unidentifiable species. One lies flat on its stomach and look despondently downward; the other sits upright, its lifeless paws hanging limply over an expanse of white paunch, looking at the reader with a stony gaze of rather appalling fixity. I don't know exactly what they are, lemmings, perhaps, meditating the future, or maybe some sort of crazed marsupials planning to take over the world and not very pleased at the propects...