Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...mother, where will I find one?" Frank Kaslov asked. "For surely, mother, you would not see me joined to one of these squat women, with no teeth in their mouths, with noses like fishhooks...
...mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling cigar** the name of Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...
Meanwhile Marshall Petain was ordering his soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...