Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some were distressed by the traces of pastoral serenity. "If it were Penn. State, it would be beer on the table," said one collegian with a large paunch. A girl ventured that "They should play silly games at punches." She was admirably built to play silly games...
...familiar posturing and pseudo-profundities. "You know," Papa solemnly told Manning, "all the beautiful women I know are growing old." But Manning reports one conversation that sheds somber light on Hemingway's writing as well as on his eventual suicide. Brooding over his high blood pressure and spreading paunch, Papa doubts that a writer can function unless he is in top physical shape. "Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul...
...have caused terrific loss to many of your fellow Americans," said the judge. The defendant, Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, folded his hands over his paunch and shifted nervously from foot to foot. He had pleaded guilty to four federal counts of fraud and conspiracy, and last week in a Newark courtroom, the time had come for sentencing...
After that crisis, Wife amiably describes how a fighting-trim bachelor becomes a fat, happy benedict. Lemmon's lady smothers him with love and stuffs him with pasta until he has rings under his eyes and a bulge over his belt. Dragging his paunch through the men's-club swimming pool, he makes the mere act of floating seem a wry comment on the leaden responsibilities of marriage. Even Bash Brannigan evolves into a folksy domestic series called The Brannigans. Finally, Lemmon rebels. Both he and Bash decide to dispose of their mates by dumping them (Brrrp! Blasp...
When the International Executive Service Corps was organized last June as a sort of executives' Peace Corps, wits immediately dubbed it the "Paunch Corps." Last week the paunch began to show some punch. Elected formally to the $50,000-a-year full-time President's post that he has filled unofficially for five months: Frank Pace...