Word: girth
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Another mortician agrees to talk in more detail, but asks to remain anonymous because he's worried that he "might not live to see tomorrow's sunrise." He is a man of imposing girth, dressed in a silk shirt printed with fierce-looking dragons. His office is three flights up a dark, narrow staircase and everything in it?the stuffed tiger, the golden gong?is half concealed by red lighting and a haze of incense smoke. He insists government reforms are being orchestrated by officials with ties to larger funeral companies that want to see firms like his go belly...
It’s advice and I know you want it. In your first 100 days as President, you want to make a good impression. You want to show those stuffy professors that your brain is as big as your considerable girth and that a new sheriff is in town. You want to show the undergraduates you truly care about making everybody happy...
...Annals of Statesmanship "Mr. President, Please Don Your Turban . . ." Nothing can console the unfortunate masses of gujarat for their dreadful loss in January's devastating earthquake. But in their darkest hour, there appeared a man whose ferocious appetites and celebrated girth are themselves affirmations of the force of life. Ex-President Bill Clinton came to extend his lower lip in sympathy and sample a cuisine that during his presidency took a back seat to McDonald's and chicken fried steaks. (Although murgh malai, we understand, is Bill's second favorite kind of chicken.) For Gujaratis and Clinton alike...