Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
Among other Europeans who had made their mark in 1940, one was short, squat General John Metaxas, Premier of the Greeks, who had made a monkey of Benito Mussolini. Another was Britain's Union Leader Ernest Bevin, who became a tower of strength in Britain's Government, who rallied Labor to Britain's cause, who became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinctions by which Britain achieved a new unity to fight her battle...
Several seasons ago the authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...
...spoke regretfully of U. S. hostility to Japanese aims, of continued pressure culminating in last week's embargo of scrap iron. Japan is still not abandoning hope of improving relations with the U. S., said the Foreign Office's Spokesman No. 1, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, swart, squat Ya-kichiro Suma...
...Dwyer got an earful. At the close of a 15-hour session the squat gunman had confessed to three murders, implicated himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave...