Word: paunches
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...think about, last week had a rank-&-file revolt on his hands. Rank ingratitude, thought John L. Only last spring he had fought and snarled and snorted until he had won for his Pennsylvania miners a boost in pay. And what thanks did he get? A kick in the paunch. All because his miners had been asked to kick in a little more money to the United Mine Workers' treasury...
...person in four can give himself a posthypnotic aversion for tobacco or paunch-making mashed potatoes, a craving for lettuce-with-mineral-oil salads or other gastronomic horrors...
...still hale, cocksure of him self. His occupational paunch does not stop him from playing golf (usually two holes), drinking his favorite cocktail (Scotch old-fashioned), eating his favorite foods (Beech-Nut). A onetime Judge employe, he bubbles when he tells a story. And his summer place at Manchester, Vt. is always open house for any good Republican...
...attractive as a person, which is what some of her less admiring critics would have us believe is her off-the-screen personality. Be this as it may, in the later sequences she manages to become so convincingly human, so persuasively drunk, so thoroughly funny, that with a paunch, a red nose, a hoarse voice, and certain unmentionables she could easily pass for W. C. Fields...
...opened on a plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...