Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 250 British and Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
Guests and Hosts. The sergeant, a squat Pennsylvanian with a blackly bearded chin and soft black eyes, said that if I'd come out to his jeep I could have some fried potatoes and coffee. As I walked out, I became aware that we were guests. The family whose house the troop had taken was seated in a thickly walled and ceilinged room on the ground level. A young girl, perhaps 15, sat perfectly still and rigid, stretched out in an armchair. As I stepped across her legs, she did not move or speak. All her words were...
...shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people suggested, but under their breath, that with his great abnormal head and his small but very active body he looked like a lizard. . . .") The second trip was to Berlin. The third and most difficult...
Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...