Word: paunchier
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...frail legs showing when he conferred with members of the state council. But the fact is that Hirohito himself, a constitutional mon arch without real power, has become far too human to be easily raised again to semidivine status. In the years since the war, he has grown paunchier, more stooped, and greyer at the temples. His walk more than ever resembles that of a duck. But the huge crowds who gathered to greet him with paper flags, banzais and sometimes tears in Hokkaido were not the awed, head-lowering crowds before the war. They offered Hirohito something they...