Word: squatness
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Until Rico and Pudge are ready, however, Terry Hughes should take the hot corner and Bob Montgomery will squat behind home plate. All told, that makes for quite a different line up from what the fans usually expect to take the field in Yawkey's "country club...
Studs Terkel is a squat, 61-year-old man who has spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...first met Mike as a sophomore--and was terrified. He was a squat 5 ft. 10 in. and tipped in at about 225. Despite a bawdy sense of humor, he liked to crunch people both on and off the field. I was always a little uneasy in his presence--he always seems to ooze a potential for mayhem...
Relaxed Mood. No one really seems to be paying much attention. Down on Shameen Island, the gently crumbling foreign-concession area built by the 19th century European traders along the Pearl River banks, old men squat placidly over a game of cards and little girls hop in unison over their skipping ropes. Canton's mood is relaxed, visibly so in the curious but friendly glances foreigners get, or in the newly repainted names of stores: MOON BEAM FRUIT STORE and EASTERN SEA HERBAL MEDICINES now glow in soft pastels where only a few years ago there were strident slogans...
...gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...