Word: squat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity stroke, graduated this June as did Oliver Filley, the Jayvee stroke. Bob Stone, the captain and number four oar, and Stuart Clark, number two oar, were both Seniors last year and Bolles will have to replace them. Two other men from the Jayvee boat, Bim Chandler and Squat Stewart, are also gone, as is Al Petite, the Varsity cox. College coaches are used to rebuilding and Tom Bolles has already started trying out new strokes. He has built many champions before...
Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...
...Watery Grave. The French Line resumed luxury service on the North Atlantic with the 18,435-ton liner De Grasse, which entered New York harbor on her first postwar trip. Her two funnels replaced by a single squat funnel, the veteran De Grasse looked none the worse for her attempted scuttling by the Germans in St. Nazaire harbor...
...P.S.D. (Social Democrat Party) cannot muster the two-thirds majority to do it. Moreover, the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), which has backed Dutra on many an issue, refuses to go along on this one. U.D.N. Chief Jose Americo de Almeida had gone straight to President Dutra at squat Catete Palace and made that plain...