Word: squarish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with a large squarish sail and twelve wooden oars, each of them 6 meters (20 ft.) long...
...City acquired it. The front part of the magazine is divided into departments on crime, business news, San Francisco history and other local topics. The middle part contains feature articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings. One of the issue's most notable traits is its squarish, Sunday-supplement size (11 in. by 13 in.). "I predict that Rolling Stone and New York will switch to our large, stapled format," Coppola says. "I predict a trend...
...Chileans fish for a living, as they would almost have to in such a skinny country with such a long coastline. So Allende's government wanted people to respect fishing more and to eat more fish. One of its best posters showed a sunburned, sadlooking young man with a squarish head and a squarish skinny body staring quizzically at a huge square fish...
...mirroring the "Chrissie look": gold loop earrings, modishly cut tennis frocks, long hair parted in the middle and tied back with colored yarn, and-look Ma!-a two-handed backhand. The Chris Evert line of Puritan Tennis outfits, frilly, form-fitting tennis togs splashed with pastels, makes the squarish whites of old look like straitjackets. Now, with the figure to complement the filigree, she has erased forever the "little Chrissie" sobriquet. Still, she is unsatisfied: "I wish some writer would get around to calling me sexy...