Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
Young Negro girls sat in the shade, "engaged on the interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...
...Chinese hoped that it might hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
Until Harrington found the thigh bone, almost nothing personal was known about Pinto Man. But careful study of the bone showed that the ancient hunter was short (5 ft. 6 in.) and squat...