Word: paunch
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...allowed to resume a normal life. Otherwise, she has been telling friends, he has suffered no ill effects except for occasional insomnia. He keeps busy by reading and, to Danuta's distress, continues to smoke heavily. The lack of activity has given him a bit of a paunch...
CARA APPROACHED the counter, did a pirhouette while screaming, "Can I have some more silvuh-way-uh please?" Buddy backed off a bit, allowing his paunch some room to move, brushed his hair back and wiped the sweat off his forehead; Jim, the boss, whistled "Lonely is a man without love" for maybe the twentieth time since the morning, picked up a butcher's knife and snapped the links holding a strand of sausage together...
...Updike looks lean and fit. He claims an excess of 5 Ibs., but has visibly avoided Rabbit's paunch. He was jogging while writing Rabbit Is Rich but has stopped, at least for a while. He retains an interest in skiing, although he finds "it gets increasingly scary, the stiffer I feel and the more fragile." Social life consists of a round of dinner parties and frequent trips to Boston to see friends, ballet...
...boys back in the barracks think this crusty old sergeant got his paunch by putting away six-packs. The truth of the matter is, I was secretly sipping another kind of malt at Salt Lake City's Snelgrove Ice Cream store...
...singer of the Germs. When the band was formed, their manager recalls, "they didn't know how to play their instruments." Darby still hasn't learned to sing into the mike during performances. Instead, he lurches across and off the stage topless, his baby fat segueing to paunch, his voice clogged with booze and speed, his bruised, burned and scarred body looking like a souvenir from a guerrilla war in which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered...