Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both managed to squeeze into their old uniforms last week. Pig raising on his Maryland farm has kept Old Barney's weight down. Rigid diet (to make his old playing weight for his part in the movie, Pride of the Yankees} has pared some of the paunch the Babe had acquired since 1935 in easy living...
...Tall, toothy, socially charming Captain Lyttelton has oversize shoulders and an expanding paunch which he overemphasizes by wearing double-breasted waistcoats. His mother is a Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...
...think about, last week had a rank-&-file revolt on his hands. Rank ingratitude, thought John L. Only last spring he had fought and snarled and snorted until he had won for his Pennsylvania miners a boost in pay. And what thanks did he get? A kick in the paunch. All because his miners had been asked to kick in a little more money to the United Mine Workers' treasury...
...person in four can give himself a posthypnotic aversion for tobacco or paunch-making mashed potatoes, a craving for lettuce-with-mineral-oil salads or other gastronomic horrors...
...still hale, cocksure of him self. His occupational paunch does not stop him from playing golf (usually two holes), drinking his favorite cocktail (Scotch old-fashioned), eating his favorite foods (Beech-Nut). A onetime Judge employe, he bubbles when he tells a story. And his summer place at Manchester, Vt. is always open house for any good Republican...