Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
...driver's seat now sits squat, swarthy Robert Sidney Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans. Grandson of an Italian immigrant, Maestri is one of the richest men in Louisiana. His father made a fortune selling furniture to the love-for-sale ladies in the cribs of the Vieux Carré. When the cribs were raided, old man Maestri repossessed the furniture, sold it over & over. Bob Maestri put his inheritance in real estate...
...Minister Aranha was planning to dicker, he has a good man to talk to. Chile's new Acting President Mendez has earned himself a notable reputation as a peacemaker and conciliator. When he entered national politics last year the squat, sallow, middle-aged doctor from Coquim-bo was nicknamed Don Geronimo el Anonimo. Recently he emerged from anonymity to the leadership of the turbulent Radical Party. He had not been a member of the Cabinet until last week when Don Tinto boosted him to the Ministry of the Interior so that he would be next in Presidential succession...
Hardships endured by midnight watches in the smaller dome belonging to the six-inch refractor were experienced by those who had to squat down on the floor in the cold night air to see Mars. A College Junior amplified the spectacle by recalling his recent observations of the receding Martian...
Shah of Persia then was the squat, pillowy royal jerk, Ahmad (height 5 ft., 2 in.; weight 275 lb.), a member of the Kajar Dynasty which had leeched on the Persian people since the late 18th Century. Ahmad's most solemn edicts, when there were any, were not obeyed outside of Teheran. He was known as the Grocery Boy Shah because he once cornered his country's entire grain crop during a famine and sold it to his starving subjects at colossal prices...