Word: squatly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Impersonally though the tides of history may seem to flow, they now waited on one man, a remarkably squat and broad-shouldered man, no more than 5 ft. 3 in. tall. He had been born Isoroku Takano, the first name meaning 56, because that was the age at which his proud father had been presented with his sixth and last son. Later adopted, according to an old custom, into a richer family, he acquired a new name: Yamamoto...
...Barnum Houses, 21 squat buildings marooned on the western edge of the city, are not an easy place to raise children, especially boys. The eldest son Gerrod, 20, fell first -- dropping out of school, smoking marijuana, then using cocaine -- and is serving a five-year sentence in North Carolina for breaking and entering. "I was out in the streets, hanging with the wrong crowd," he says. The third brother Jeremy began selling drugs. "Jeremy wanted things," says his mother. "It's that fast money. They want Michael Jordan sneakers and all that stuff they see." Jeremy was shot to death...
...concert is the main event of the day. Twelve hundred students, faculty members and friends fill the gym and squat on the floor as the Burger band members take the stage. "I won't know if you like it unless you make some noise," Minicucci announces as he tells the audience to move closer. The band starts with Love Is in the Air and Minicucci quickly works up a sweat as he bounces, points, claps and raises his hands to the beat of the music. The players wield their mallets in unison, pounding out a strident, pulsing beat. A number...
Taking a break from his flute playing, 23-year-old Sheba described his own experience squatting in a house on Eliot St. before it burned down last year. "The squat was good for all of us," he said. "It was a happy home...
Over time, though, returning home or at least relocating to one of the tent cities may begin to look more appealing to the Kurds than continuing to squat in their miserable mountain asylums along the border. Turkish forces patrolling their side of the frontier may speed up that reassessment. "When the weather gets better," says a U.N. worker, "the Turkish military will get the journalists out, then give the refugees a survival kit and push them out, at gunpoint if necessary." Other relief specialists add that within a month, the streams in the mountains will dry up, forcing the Kurds...