Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swiftly south from Lingayen Gulf. Filipino guerrillas had reported the location of their camp, which was 25 miles inside the Jap lines on the Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci, in command...
...ground, the P-59, needing no clearance for a propeller, presents an odd, squat profile with an upswept rear end (to keep out of the way of the hot blast from the jets). Ground crewmen give the plane a wide berth at its takeoff; anyone within 20 feet of the jets would be burned to a crisp. But in the air, the fuel is burned so completely in the combustion chamber that the jets show no flame, even at night. The openings in front of the plane through which air is sucked into the motor posed a problem: they also...
Harg, in this novel by Vardis Fisher, was one of several hundred squat, hairy, apelike men roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...
...Illinois' C. Wayland Brooks, the Chicago Tribune errand boy, let loose with a gusty anti-British blast: "The American people did not send their sons abroad to fight and die for the safety of Britain or the triumph of Russian influence." And in the House, Pennsylvania's squat, aggressive Leon Gavin cried: "It's about time for Uncle Sam to get tough with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...