Word: squatness
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...Squat, pudgy Mickey Cohen, 45, proved a man of few words when pressed on his friendliness for Billy Graham ("I just hope and feel the feeling is likewise between Billy and I")* or his past weakness for killing people ("I have killed no man that in the first place didn't deserve killing by the standards of our way of life"). When Wallace urged him to name the crooked politicians who protected his gambling rackets, Cohen demurred: "That is not my way of life, Mike...
...paper held out by his taller, slimmer companion. The little man tucked the paper in his inside coat pocket, shook hands and turned back to the hotel. Smiling to himself, he padded across the thick rug in the lobby and started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation closed in on him, frisked him like a common footpad, and took from him the onionskin document. The paper...
...precision. When he was not working with the gloves on, he was studying movies of Archie's past fights, and, with canny Manager Cus D'Amato. planning his battle, round by round. Still, the smart money rode with the veteran. It was Moore. Moore, Moore, as squat, cold-eyed men talked around their smoldering cigars about the old man's wile, experience and mulelike punch. Only a last-minute showing of "Eastern" money drove the odds down where they deserved to be: Moore...
Egan predicted "the public will rebel" against the Ivy League football. He stated that spectators know what is good and will not put up with "squat-tag" football. Throughout the column the University graduate reiterated that New Englanders did not have to be told they were being gypped...
...ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer in the first inning, another into the stands in the third. After that, the tense series degenerated into a shambles. In the fourth inning, Yankee Outfielder Elston Howard tagged Newk for another homer, and the home-town stands...