Word: paunch
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...intelligence agents. But to do so endangers other reporters and violates journalism's quaint, faint imperative to work for only one paycheck and report even awkward truths. The counterbalancing urgency--biological warfare, for Pete's sake--makes Truell's decision too easy, so that in the last chapters a paunch begins to show on what was a taut and enjoyable job of writing...
...display of insouciance for a man about to be charged with complicity in a 1982 car bombing that killed a pregnant woman and wounded 63 others, there was no masking the tired image Carlos cut as he stood in white pants, his mauve pullover stretched taut by mid-life paunch, his short hair a muddy gray. At 44, he looked like a washed- up playboy...
...years. Suspected of ordering at least 150 killings, he was convicted in absentia in 1987 of murder and drug trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Some sources suggested he had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, but apart from grayer hair and a more pronounced paunch, the man captured last week bore an unmistakable likeness to an FBI computer-generated drawing based on the last known photograph of Riina, from...
...elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
...care and energy with which she has pursued the causes of disaster relief and cancer detection. But the impression of Marilyn that emerges overall is of a woman so controlling of her husband's image that she once removed from the wall a picture she believed gave him a paunch, scribbled over it and then kicked it out of its frame; a strategist who helped plot not only her husband's early political career but also his mini-campaign for the vice-presidential spot on the G.O.P. ticket; a political partner who has installed herself in a large office across...