Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
Until war's end, the Ford burden must inevitably fall upon the two most trusted men in the empire - tall, hawk-nosed Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge...
Correspondents live circumscribed routine lives in Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing...
Rodriguez & Sutherland first met in August 1940, at a newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...