Word: squatness
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...such an atmosphere of yearning, the Big Four foreign ministers met one evening at the Pacific Union Club, a squat, brownstone mansion atop Nob Hill, to savor California cracked crabs, guinea hen on ham, and strawberries Mary Pickford (coated with pineapple sherbet). "A month ago we were in Vienna," toasted the host, John Foster Dulles. "Tonight we dine in San Francisco. Within the month we will be at Geneva. We can all hope that the sources of friction between us have been reduced by our efforts." The city lay beneath them, glistening myriad lights at night, to the edge...
Along Paris' grim Rue Hippolyte Maindron stands a squat concrete building half hidden by a rickety gate. A casual passerby might think it a garage, but one peek through the window would probably give him a jolting surprise. The small. 12-by-15-ft. room is the private world of one of the world's most original sculptors: wiry, bushy-haired Alberto Giacometti. 53. In 28 years, a good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette...
...course of eliminating opposition to Communist rule in rugged mountainous Shensi province, Kao Kang, a squat, square-jawed warlord, learned all about the precipice treatment for despised rivals. By 1935 he had Shensi so much under his fist that Mao Tse-tung marched his harassed legions 6,000 miles to get to the safety of Kao's country. Only then did Shensi Peasant Kao, 33, and already eight years a party member, learn to read and write...
...life Rubinstein and his money attracted swarms of women, most of them beautiful and taller by several inches than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...
...eight performers (a chemistry teacher, a solicitor's clerk, a printer, a policeman, an Oxford undergraduate, a divinity teacher, a market gardener and a physicist) ate a big predawn breakfast at the King's Head Hotel and, at 4 a.m., climbed the squat red-brick campanile of Taylor's bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes...