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  • When I walked into the Madison, Wisconsin Toyota dealer to purchase it, there were a dozen middle-aged white men with pot-bellies, and a Latina that looked about 16 years old.

    THE SCION: A STUDY IN MARKETING AND MISFIRES » Sociological Images 2009

  • As a sociologist concerned with body image issues, was it really appropriate to describe the sales force as “a dozen middle-aged white men with pot-bellies”.

    THE SCION: A STUDY IN MARKETING AND MISFIRES » Sociological Images 2009

  • Why is Sean Hannity afraid of Islam, but silent on terrorists like Krar, with their white skin and pot-bellies?

    Think Progress » Bush Invites Right-Wing Radio Hosts To White House 2006

  • What pleasure can I have in going to dinner at a restaurant where I am served by old moss-grown pot-bellies who look like Père Didon, if not by women in mob caps who make me think I am at a Bouillon Duval.

    Time Regained 2003

  • The van stopped for an hour at a prison somewhere where the drivers and guards got out - probably to stuff their pot-bellies with hot breakfast and morning coffee.

    Chapter 5 - Trial 1987

  • Juvenile tragedy, light comedy, and walking gentleman with little pot-bellies, and _have-been_ pretty women, are really to be pitied.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • These here pot-bellies that sit in banks, and these here loud-mouthed orators that make speeches and say they wished they could go to war, it's their only regret that they can't go, and die with the flag in their hands -- these fellers, damn 'em, can't make any headway if the boys are on to the game.

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • And, by God, furst thing you know they ain't anybody to do the fightin 'but the pot-bellies and the orators who want to die but are too old to carry a gun, and so go around lamentin' their age, the furst thing you know, nobody is left but 'em to fight.

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • And they grew old abominably, the women's breasts falling, the men getting pot-bellies ....

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

  • I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their grey toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.

    Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

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