Word: squat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HIMALAYAS are at the brink. They jut out from the land-based solid world into another, to thin space and distort time and squat and rise from an area they've rendered, up until lately, inaccessible and unexploitable. But they are there, and because they are people are scaling them and breaching them. Their delicate ecology and their inhabitants age-old existence is being squeezed into a different mold. The mountain world of India, Nepal and Tibet is sliding from what it was, and still is in pockets, into what it will become. The Snow Leopard documents this change...
...matron replied that there was no mistake. "Pull down your pants, squat three times, and spread your vagina," she ordered. When the girl's disbelief turned to defiance, the matron calmly warned: "If you don't cooperate, six guys will come in and do it for me." The matron first probed the girl's anus and then, without washing or using sanitary gloves, examined her vagina. The girl's humiliation was increased when she noticed several video cameras in the room, part of a closed-circuit security system with monitors at the desk in the building...
...Detroit's Wayne State University: "Hemorrhoids run in families. People inherit veins that are apt to become dilated." Habit may also be a factor, including the "bathroom as library" syndrome. Explains Los Angeles Proctologist Michael Freilich: "We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field." The American diet is also a culprit. Heavy on processed foods, light on fiber for bulk, it can produce constipation and straining. Obesity and pregnancy, too, may contribute to hemorrhoids because of the extra pressure...
...most African cities the central marketplace is a carnival, where women mass in daylong congregation, squat amid bundles and babies, haggle over prices, cluck over misfortunes and paw over food for sale. Not in Luanda. Its central market, a dank, echoing, three-story concrete structure, is virtually empty of food. Long, bare counters stretch away into the urine-scented gloom. Weighing scales swing empty in the hot breeze, and the women sit quietly, waiting...
...photographers egg the Secretary and would be Senator on. Andrus and Tsongas sit on their heels and say hi to Melanie. The photographer motion Tsongas to squat more, to get in the picture. They trade autographs--Melanie draws a big heart and writes I LOVE Paul underneath it. Tsongas signs something for her. He looks at his autograph and asks her to write some more, to add the names "Ashley" and "Katina" after "Paul." His aides motion him that it is time to move on but. Tsongas is patient...