Word: squatness
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...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
...most enterprising of the new generation was squat, baby-faced Photographer Ivo Meldolesi, 34, who was acquitted of collaboration charges in 1945 for "insufficient proof of guilt." Last spring, Meldolesi made front pages in Europe and the U.S. with two notable beats. Masquerading as a Capri fisherman, he snapped the only picture of Britain's Princess Margaret in a bathing suit; later, he surprised camera-shy Greta Garbo without her hat, got a shot of her covering her face with her long, tawny hair. Last week, Meldo-lesi's energy and enterprise landed him his biggest scoop...
...squat, articulate Dr. Fishbein was still full of energy and plans. Said he: "I don't feel like relaxing. There is no fixed retirement age for human beings. I have been associated recently with five men over 80 in the medical profession, and they are still doing great work...
Diamond Jim's Gems. Fortnight ago, Hiram Parke popped champagne for a housewarming in the galleries' new $1,500,000 home, a squat, block-long modern building on upper Madison Avenue, 20 blocks away from his old store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the galleries' door, to symbolize art and industry, is a 14-by-10-foot sculpture of Venus and Manhattan, a reclining male. (Because Venus' bosom protrudes more than the permissible 18 inches over the sidewalk, Parke-Bernet pays $25 a year to the city for the privilege...
...began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked in the manner of a blacksmith - a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...