Word: squatness
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...Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and Molotov, and in many a dingy meeting hall from Thuringia to Tibet, dutiful comrades set to study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy...
...left her dressing room, a wrestling representative of the opposite sex confronted me. I recognized him as Buz Orio, a large, squat gentleman who had previously concluded a bout with another large, squat gentleman known professionally as the Demon...
...gaunt and glittering spikes, and dandelions as wildly dancing figures-all in deep green, creamy white, swirls of rich brown, red and yellow. Sometimes he takes the other tack, drains his canvas of color then his moonlight scenes become spooky tangles of waving hop vines, brush piles and squat, triangular chicken houses...
This week, the good citizens of Toledo, Ohio, huddle in small groups in their living rooms and cast mutinous glances at their television sets. In bitter whispers, they account past sacrifices to the squat, pudgy object which stares back blankly out of its glassy eye. It was supposed to reunite the American family, revitalize the entertainment business, succor the optical industry. For these boons, people were quite willing, when the set took up residence, to shift their furniture and remodel their draperies to give it a fit setting. And they suffered through telecrane (a stiffness of the muscles...
...first a deserter. The point is that no southern boy is ever a pure villain. The nearest thing to a southern rapscallion was Quantrill and his merrie lads. Of course, there is much dispute as to the lethal guerilla's background and appearance. He ranges from the squat Brian Donley-type soldier (Kansas Raiders) to the distinguished Walter Pidgeon-type ex-school-teacher (Dark Command). There is universal agreement, though, that he had the best of intentions, and besides, he didn't really represent the South...