Word: rotund
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...longer tunic meant you were a brain, loose socks meant you were a toughie. Here at the games all the well-meaning muddle-aged volunteers - the rough equivalent of school prefects - wear garish shirts and silly hats. As well as looking equally unprepossessing on everyone, including my rather rotund father, they too have nuances. It's all in the hardware. The more electronics a person is carrying, the more he or she knows. And a yellow hatband indicates seniority. In other words, they're only ones it's worth actually asking a question. (And, by the way, folks, this...
...White House will celebrate its 200th birthday on Nov. 1, and right now the White House Historical Association is searching for someone rotund enough to play the role of President John Adams, the first President to take up residence there. All he has to do is climb into an antique carriage on Pennsylvania Avenue around 1 p.m. that day and make his way to the White House to commemorate the fateful first entry, which at the time was barely noted. The original Adams had some doubts about the place even before he left Philadelphia; the mansion...
Watching the theatrical duo gallop around on toy-horses with the lanky Greene blustering away in a puffed-out tenor and the rotund Herrera squeaking a charming countermelody seems to hit right at the heart of Don Quixote...
...York Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch and rotund golfer John Daly both had Thursdays they'd like to forget. Knoblauch committed three errors in a Yankee loss; Daly shot a 14 on one U.S. Open hole. Compare their incompetence...
...Forget Harvard and party. Spring-breakers eager to get a head-start on their one week stint into a college student's paradise dish out a few bucks for the cold brew as they board a charter bus from Cancun International Airport to their hotels. The bus driver, a rotund Mexican, safeguards the remaining beer in a red picnic cooler. He's saving it especially for the World Class representatives, employees of a travel company specializing in Spring Break student vacations and operated by Travel Turf Inc. Logically, in a universe where spring break is your job, beer must...