Word: stoutish
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...easier were it the "breakfast table education" of old, the former soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
Next Captain Anderson found a stoutish, red-faced, blond-haired man named Walter Andreas Hofer. He is a former art dealer who for the last eight years has done all of Göring's buying. He identified the pictures, and told how most of the collection was acquired...
...Elsa Maxwell is a stoutish lady who has won something of a national reputation for throwing gay parties...
Bernanos is now 54, stoutish, heavy-shouldered, with a grey mustache and grey hair. He limps badly from an old motorcycle accident, walks with two canes and is happiest on horseback. So are his handsome, brilliant wife and six children -three sons and three daughters-all of whom now live in the Bernanos manor, Cruz das Almas...
...floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball. And the impression that a firefighter's nine and one-half hour daily stint cannot be classified as labor is confirmed by long rows of cots...