Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operator figures that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever on a job steadily. "Stand-bys," men whose jobs had been taken over by machinery in the middle of the job, had to be paid even though all they did was squat on the wharf and fish. Wrathful shippers took their business to businesslike harbors...
Ominous is the word for Alexander Granach's performance as a Gestapo bloodhound. The squat, square-headed, muscle-bound sleuth ticks along with the sinister near silence of a clock. He never speaks; his approach is heralded by the patient squeak of his shoes. Actor Granach knew his role well. One of Germany's best actors, but a Jew, he escaped from his country a stride ahead of the real Gestapo...
...months ago in Washington, a squat dynamo of a man, full of strange contradictions and flashing talents, urged increased U.S. production of everything from bacon to bombers. "Bottlenecks, to me," explained Lord Beaverbrook, "used to symbolize pleasure-now they're a pain in the neck." Last week, Max Aitken, once of New Castle, N.B., now Lord Beaverbrook of London, stuck his neck out for new pains. He became Minister of War Production...
Died. Marion Sayle Taylor, 52, radio's "Voice of Experience"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Squat, rain-barrel-voiced, he dispensed advice on everything from cookery to marital relations, at the peak of his popularity a few years ago drew from listeners some 30,000 anxious letters a week. He was married three times, divorced twice...
Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...