Word: squatness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Correspondents live circumscribed routine lives in Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing...
Rodriguez & Sutherland first met in August 1940, at a newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...
...been no picnic. His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains. The rest was not going to be a pushover, said Lieut. General George Kenney, the dynamic airman who shares MacArthur's bungalow, and squat Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney warned of possible hard fighting after Buna fell. General Kenney noted that the Japs still had planes they had not yet used, but Allied air superiority was such that a million pounds of food and ammunition had been dropped to MacArthur's fighters in the mountains...
Practically all characters in My World are mentally on all fours. Those who struggle into an erect position are mercilessly beaten over the head by a pixillated fate until they squat. Within the prison of life, says Thurber, are "smaller prisons" erected by bureaucrats. In them, man is caught "like a mouse in a trap in Sing Sing...
...extremely rare Third Method, a kind of fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...