Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene II: Many hours to the east the warship slows its pace. Another warship appears-this one British. The President, on deck, watches a small boat coming near, recognizes from pictures the squat figure in the sea cape, the cherubic face under a white yachting...
Three years ago, in Portland, squat, square-jawed Theodore Patrick Flynn, senior equipment engineer for the U.S. Forest Service, started working on a power-driven saw. Several logging-equipment companies in the Northwest began to manufacture the saws experimentally, but they caught on slowly with lumbermen...
Hull down in Pacific brine, squat, ugly U.S. freighters were last week carrying the second A.E.F.-men and materials for action in the Far East. Hundreds of young U.S. volunteers were en route to fight in China's skies (TIME, June 23). Advisers were going; men of every skill and walk of life were setting out, some for freedom's sake, some for adventure...
...have two souls," he declared during a lecture tour of U.S. universities in 1931. "One is that of a man of the world who enjoys ease and comfort and a nice season at Newport. The other is that of a man who likes to squat in a dirty Arab tent, full of Arabs, and eat with his fingers. . . . The desert is my bride. ..." Adolf Hitler was fighting only Bolsheviks, Oppenheim added, and nice persons needn't be afraid: "We are not a people of revenge. . . . We want only a chance to work...
That these trials of the most turbulent 18 months in the history of Great Britain did not keep Producer Gabriel Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...