Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done their work, and the Navy was ready to tell the story, it was enough to know that this time the shells pounding the invaded islands came from U.S. ships. This time the bombs rending docks, ships, airdromes and troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed from the slit trenches, who listened for the roar of attacking planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers would next...
...Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...
...espionage and violation of the National Defense Act. Miss Argall was tied up and handcuffed when she was arrested and was repeatedly slapped until her face was cut. [CBS Representative Walter R.] Wills was slapped during the whole examination period, lasting more than three months. He was forced to squat for hours in Japanese fashion, with the result that he still is suffering an injury to his left knee. [Jasper N.] Bellinger was slapped, kicked on the shins and forced to stand for hours with his hands above his head...
...force a confession the police threatened me with firing squads as an alternative to instantaneous death at the hands of the examining police. For four days early in January 1 was forced to squat for hours in the Japanese fashion while four policemen slapped my face, kicked me and made feints at strangling me until my knees were covered with open wounds and I was a physical wreck...
...soldiers marched around the flagpole again. All the women smiled at them. The visitors saw faces in the windows of a squat gray building. The faces smiled very contentedly on the soldiers with the anchors on their hats and the women who lived near them. One of the visitors murmured "The place has recently been sold." The visitors went away, and one whom they called Vag shook his head...