Word: squarish
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...experimental cars, the DeSoto Adventurer and the Dodge Firearrow, both designed by Chrysler and hand-built by Italian Bodymaker Ghia. The DeSoto is much like Chrysler's D'Elegance coupé, also hand built by Italy's Ghia, which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around the car. Chrysler has no idea...
...words" are masonry-like slabs of paint troweled on to canvas. His biggest picture weighs 250 lbs. unframed, and his smallest, something more than a gym-class dumbbell. Each colored slab fits its neighbors as snugly as a stone in a wall. A mound of squarish slabs represents a bouquet; rectangular slabs in horizontal layers stand for a seacoast. De Staël's colors are sumptuous, often set off by solid chunks of coal black which supercharge the canvas in much the same way as Rouault's heavy black outlines...
...turned out to be James Fidler,* a squarish, stocky young fellow with pleasantly twinkling eyes, carefully combed wavy hair and a professorial pointer in his hand. After a flourish of music and an announcer's explanation of the program, Fidler appeared on the telescreen, briskly went to work on the six maps that surrounded...
...larger western section is far neater and better adapted for SAC. Two parallel corridors run the length of the floor and are joined at each end in the center by shorter crossways, thus forming a squarish figure...
Cunning. When Bill Boone and his wife enter the story they run off with it. Bill is short, stocky, cocky, with "a good-looking squarish face," now somewhat puffy, always getting in fights, which he always loses. He is an expert with dice, and has a pathetic eagerness for a respectable job that makes him vulnerable to his wife's malice. Bill is dragged out of a bar, sobered up, and hired as Pineboro's only salaried fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother...