Word: squatness
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Money was the most critical shortage. With zooming costs and an iron-clad budget, Harrison's designers had to redraw the plans for the Assembly Building nine times to make successive economies in size and building materials. The resulting design was too squat, Harrison thought...
...behind Tabet's mission to the U.S. Ambassador was squat and suave Ahmed Aboud Pasha, one of the three top figures in the Wafd, a multimillionaire who dabbles in sugar, fertilizer and shipping lines. Premier Hilaly was poking into some 140 tax-evasion charges against Aboud which the Wafd had quashed before Hilaly came to office...
What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...
...four days, talk of modern medicine was barred from Paris' Maison de la Médecine. The squat hall, across the square from Napoleon's tomb, was taken over by the latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of Acupuncture. His Imperial Highness Prince Buu Loc, Vietnamese Ambassador to France, assured the 350 delegates from 16 countries that the Western world was at last recognizing the virtues of acupuncture -the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles...
Winthrop is the House of mesomorphs. The long and lean, the short and squat are uncomfortable within its severe brick walls. But last year Winthrop came out first in the number of House applicants...