Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson looks and acts more like a hurrying, harried diplomat than a politician. Nearing 52, he has earned a small tendency to paunch and jowl, but he still gives the impression of slightness, and is light enough on his feet to play a fair game of tennis. His manner is lawyerlike, earnest and-sometimes patiently, sometimes anxiously-engaging. He has a rueful laugh, nervous and sudden, a tongue in his head, and a head on his shoulders. When he has a hard decision to make, he sometimes holds his head as if it hurts him. He has had to make...
...Asch Express pulled out of Prague's Woodrow Wilson Station at 9:55 one morning last week, Conductor August Beb. his paunch taut but official in his brass-buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends...
...Flares. Goering's character, Frischauer shows, was "far from deep. It was, rather, a broad one-as expansive and glittering with showy decorations as the chest and paunch that went with it. Goering was a supremely energetic man, endowed with an extraordinary memory for facts & figures and an acute, intuitive sense of popular emotions. But these faculties, like every other aspect of his character, were flares that burnt furiously and impressively for short periods and then were suddenly succeeded by bursts of playfulness, pseudo mysticism, or acute depression...
...most fearsome-looking monsters ever put behind bars. On seeing him for the first time, zoo visitors read a promise of unspeakable ferocity in his black little eyes, his brutal, purplish-black countenance, and his gleaming white incisors. Unlike some older gorillas, he never developed a paunch; and his hairy 547 lbs. are all muscle...
...hire, was a mighty surprised man. He had been paid to ride up to South Pass, Wyo. and plug a troublesome cowboy named Lincoln Bradway. But when the two men drew and fired, Gunman Haskel "uttered a loud yell of pain and dismay . . . Clapping his hands to his big paunch he sank to his knees, swayed and slowly collapsed a few yards from the sidewalk...