Word: squat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
...stop the fight I will kill myself," breathed hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan to his manager. Then the middle-aged (32) middleweight champion slumped back on his squat stool in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, close to exhaustion. "My title . . . my title," he mumbled in French...
...Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...
...Keep in Shape. Now a squat, high-domed 53, Masson starts the day with three cups of coffee which his wife brings to him in bed (she also advises him about his painting on occasion, but he considers her taste too classical). After breakfast he pores over reproductions of old masters. Sometimes he copies their drawings, "to keep in shape, like a pianist...
...East. Selfish and insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...