Word: zaftig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't all that trim and girlish either. She was pretty zaftig...
...fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured, in its way, as any brushstroke by de Kooning. With women Sargent was in his element, and icons of late-Victorian and Edwardian femininity rise from his work with wonderful directness: those all-time-champion Jewish princesses the Wertheimer sisters, zaftig and bursting with life, or the paler and more shadowed beauty of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw...
Some of this advice should be straightforward enough. I would think candidates have been told not to use inappropriate relationship as a verb, particularly in its short form, as in "I think last night after the rally he IR'd that zaftig secretary from Scheduling." I can imagine consultants advising candidates that as a general rule, it's unwise to use the phrase youthful indiscretion if the dalliance took place at a time when either participant qualified for one of those leisure-housing developments like Sun City, Ariz., that are restricted to senior citizens...
OPRAH (FORMERLY "ZAFTIG") WINFREY OCCUPATION: Running a book club BEST PUNCH: In a 1996 episode about mad-cow disease coming to the U.S., Oprah said, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger. I'm stopped." Cattle prices fell for the next two weeks...