Word: stoutness
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...still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long as I'm in a chair thinking, I seem to be as young as ever. It's only when I do a three-or four-mile walk that I find...
...Bateson Co., of Dallas, started construction in the fall of 1968. When the work crew arrived from Local 210, a convicted bookie was on hand to serve as union foreman. The union official in charge of keeping time cards for the laborers was 300-lb. Sammy Lagattuta. His stout figure is a familiar one to police. He is at present awaiting trial on a federal charge of loan-sharking conspiracy...
...short, stout, balding, rumpled, plain-speaking man who viewed the world through black-rimmed bifocals and generally liked what he saw. He was, in brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...appears the very model of the Southern politician: balding, rather stout, a devoted Democrat who dutifully worked his way up through party ranks. He spent twelve patient, hard-working years in the state senate and four years as lieutenant governor. In a gubernatorial campaign rife with racial overtones, West displayed a commendable combination of traditional Southern eloquence and a considered program for his state's future. His opponent, Republican Congressman Albert Watson, repeatedly played on the racist theme of unrest in South Carolina's desegregated schools. West calmly denounced such emotional exploitation and mapped out an intelligent program for solving...
They sat around the tables in groups of six and eight, conversing over half-filled cups of coffee and glasses of Budweiser. The women, most of them middle-aged and as stout as their candidate, huddled together while their husbands leaned over the tables, staring at the intruding reporters...