Word: paunches
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...depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty dancers and hard as sacked salt...
...scene is Eastern exurbia, with its vast, manicured lawns, four-car garages and, most emblematic of the good life, swimming pools. Among those who drank too much is Neddy Merrill (Hurt Lancaster), a fortyish adman. But unlike the commuters who surround him, he nurses no hangover and fights no paunch. One day Merrill inexplicably finds himself eight miles from home dressed only in swimming trunks. Suddenly, obsessed by a strange notion, he decides to take an unearthly route home -by splashing in and out of his neighbors' pools...
Sweating heavily, with both temperature and humidity in the 80s, Johnson peeled off his jacket, self-consciously patted his paunch, then sprang another surprise. He presented Westmoreland with a Distinguished Service Medal "for his courage, for his leadership, for his determination, and for his great ability as a soldier and as a patriot." Like the good soldier he is, the general betrayed no surprise, did not even turn his head when he heard the news. "American fighting men," concluded the President, "you have the respect, you have the support, you have the prayers of a grateful President...
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...