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Word: squats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid beer mugs and squat oak tables, a group of Lampon pundits gathered solemnly in 1901 to discuss a new proposal. The Lampoon, despite its ample "beer nights," had cleared one-thousand dollars that year, and the Treasurer hoped to use the money to begin a building fund. The idea was accepted enthusiastically, for Lampy had already outgrown two homes, Thayer Hall and a room on Mt. Auburn Street. The third location, a small closet in a former Holyoke Street church, was equally unsatisfactory...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Flemish Birdhouse | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

...only solution, Hooton says, is for these "stringbeans" to marry short girls. For example, girls like the short, squat French-Canadians that Hunt mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Warns Against Human Beanpoles | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

...French-Canadians are proud of our virility, but we do not consider our amorous pursuits a mere program of nationalized procreation. To say that our off spring will be "short and squat, with their eyes close together" is an intolerable conjecture. Do you seriously believe that such a hardy stock will bear your personal insult without seeking some measure of revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANUCK CONVERSION | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

Galya Izmailova, ballerina of the Uzbek Opera Theatre, turned up with a trio of squat-dancers. Dressed in traditional Uzbek pantaloons, she wriggled and shook various parts of her body separately and in unison with dramatic overtones ranging from the flirtatious to the provocative. Sergei Obraztsov, whose official title is Puppet Master of the Central Puppet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culture Missionaries | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Paint on the Curves. The burros and Indians in the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roaring Road | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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