Word: squatness
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...wide, with twin decks, which are joined by big, vertical steel tubes that are driven into the sea floor by hydraulic jacks. The upper deck rides 50 ft. above the water and supports the drill rig; the lower platform is flooded and slides down the tubes to squat on the bottom for better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform, etc.. by a narrow steel...
...short, squat bridge perches across a shallow gully at Lo Wu, where Red China and British Hong Kong meet. Railroad tracks as well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...squat, blue-jowled man with the broken nose and the meaty shoulders of a middleweight boxer pushed his way last week through a swirling crowd of aides, secretaries and Cabinet ministers waving papers at him. "If it can wait until July 20, keep it," he snapped. "If it can't wait, do it yourself...
...crowd was filing through the colonnades of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club when a ticket scalper spotted a possible customer heading for the main gate. Behind his dark sunglasses, the squat little man looked like a London clerk who had slipped away from the office to watch the finals of the 1954 Wimbledon tennis championships...
Actually Catlin never could match the skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...