Word: paunches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodeo tromps the Boston Garden sable each night at eight, featuring the real and unreal of vaquerdom, paunch-sing Gene Autry, and pigtails-fringe-flap Annie Oakley...
...revelation begins. Casals sits in a straight chair, dough-faced, tubby, so tiny that his feet no more than reach the floor. With eyes closed, and the fat fiddle hugged to his paunch, he looks more like a village baker dozing over a sack of meal than any possible kind of artist. But then he begins to play. Sudden, full, supple, the big contralto of the cello speaks. The music rushes like a river from a cave. And soon the audience may become aware of a peculiar thing. When Casals plays, it is no more possible to sort...
Laura: You can hold it, all right . . . Right there in that fat paunch of yours...
Senator Joseph McCarthy, the paunch-and-jowly look gone, his face pale, eyes gentle, and the familiar roar replaced by soft, conciliatory words, said he had lost 41 Ibs. Present occupation: writing a book on the origins of the (1937-45') war between China and Japan...
...biggest (1,200 employees) and most prosperous of Paris' 820-member couturiers' protective association, Designer Dior, 62, is a shy, balding Norman with a birdlike face and trencherman's paunch. Son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer, he started out to be a diplomat, instead opened a picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided...