Word: squatness
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They crowded to the rails, rubbernecking eagerly as the towers of the City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that in Tallinn once lived that popular Old Bolshevik gaffer Mikhail Kalinin who today is frontman for secretive Joseph Stalin in the role of Soviet President. "Look there, comrades!" cried the political commissar, "Over there you can see where Mikhail Ivanovich once worked as a mechanic...
Novelist Heyward's principal case history is that of broad-shouldered, deep-bosomed Rhoda Berg, whom squat, bandy-legged Adam Work had deserted five years before. When Adam came back after the crash, she refused to sleep with him, pined for the days when "dere was always something it was time to do ... to tie de canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local...
...nunnery was General Toda Rai's palace at Mopu. The soaring bulk of Kanchenjunga opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...
...submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch of a sunken ship. Last week, the best hope of the 33 men in the Squalus was Commander McCann's rescue bell, which was being made ready aboard the squat little rescue ship Falcon, steaming from New London...
...Olaf's choristers always sing unaccompanied. Their sense of pitch is so accurate that their director, squat, white-haired Dr. Frederick Melius Christiansen, never even peeps a pitch pipe to give them the key. And their singing has the precision and shading of a crack symphony orchestra. Every year they pack up and pile into a chartered bus for at least one big tour. For St. Olaf, these tours earn substantial sums. The grey stone, $140,000 music building that is the pride of St. Olaf s campus was paid for mostly out of the choir's profits...