Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rolfe. (He married Pocahontas, squat Indian, who thought Capt. John Smith was dead...
...minutes, set a new record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied upon the slightly squat pure-bred Siberian variety, had lost to St. Goddard whose team was composed of rangier animals, half wolfhound, half Husky...
...acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...
Sharp yelps and long drawn shuddering howls issued last week from a squat building at Mexico City in which the recently enacted dog licensing law was being enforced...
...this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into a cave that had no back door. He was tried for rebellion, sentenced to life imprisonment in a hot cell in Egypt. After 22 years Parliament remembered that this...