Word: paunch
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...preparing himself, Ustinov boned up on the period and North. In preparing viewers to accept a unique approach to a potentially tedious subject, the producers show Ustinov getting his beard shaved and putting on a powdered wig and 18th century rig over his own prime ministerial paunch. Sevareid also read up on the subject for a month, but wore his usual mid-20th century suit for the filming, which took place in Wroxton Abbey, North's ancestral home, near Stratford-on-Avon...
...Hustler; the slithering prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, squinting at witnesses through slit eyes like a starving mongoose ready for the kill; the self-destructive doctor in Petulia; the cool, clipped English sleuth in The List of Adrian Messenger; General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove, slapping his burgeoning paunch and producing a sound like a thunderclap from Olympus, wrestling the Russian ambassador to the floor of the war room as the world ends with a comic bang...
...Perseverance? Good times? Justifying his existence? He isn't really sure. He likes his teammates, he likes the game, he needs to sweat a few inches off his paunch. He says that he doesn't like to stand in the goal and have people shoot at him, but then, he says, "that's the challenge...
...inner circle and was invited to join Hitler at his eyrie near Obersalzberg in the Alps above Berchtesgaden. Visits there were a numbing ordeal. Long lunches were followed by short walks to Hitler's Alpine teahouse for tea and cookies. Hitler carefully avoided sweets. "Imagine me with a paunch," he would say. "It would be political suicide." The Führer was prone to fall asleep in the middle of his own monologues...
...those supposedly sure bets that never quite pays off. Until last year, he had only one good season (13-6); that was 1966, the year the Orioles won the pennant and took the World Series in four straight. In 1967, he tore a tendon and developed something of a paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before the start of the 1968 season, however, he underwent some strenuous arm therapy to stretch the tendon, lost 15 Ibs. and showed up for spring training in mint condition for the first time in years. His slider, an essential pitch...