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• n  the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
• n  the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

• For Luciana, the groundwork came early in adolescence, when "all legs and big feet, thick at the waist and thick in the nose," she was taken in hand by her half brother, Rodolfo .
• Rather than slip a punch, the traditional defensive move, it was his habit to sway back, bending at the waist a tactic that appalled the experts.
• Big butt, big hips, big breasts, small waist, and long hair.

• waistline
• shank

News & Articles

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• Waist-to-height ratio may be better indicator for health risks than BMI
  Waist-to-height ratio may be a more accurate measure of cardiovascular health risk than the current standard, the body mass index, a local expert says. He's confident that the waist-to-height ratio may soon eclipse the BMI as a measure of risk for life...
  June 14, 2013 - MedCity News
• Firefighters wade through waist-deep clutter to fight house fire
  Firefighters had to wade through waist-deep clutter to fight a fire that broke out at an elderly woman's home in Seattle Friday afternoon.
  June 14, 2013 - KOMO Seattle
• In the lab: Waist circumference is competing with BMI for health risk measure, expert says
  Body Mass Index is flawed and the height-weight ratio is a better measure for health risk, says one expert. But the BMI is still the best measure until height-waist ratio is more precise, says another.
  June 13, 2013 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Quotes

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• Mitch Daniels in NewsOK.com (registration)
  This thing came on fast with such a radical deluge of water that people were describing going from a feeling of security to waist-deep water in a matter or 15 or 20 minutes,said Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who canceled a trade mission to Japan.
• Andy Reid in Gulf Times
  I'ma piece of the puzzle here, and by my waist size I'ma big piece, but in reality I'm just a piece of the puzzle,Reid said. "I love Philadelphia . The fans, there is nothing like them. They have just been unbelievable. They're fair. If we...