Word: squats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tools leaped clattering from their hooks, dishes broke, and over the bedlam the wind yowled and screamed. At dawn two unbelievable waves (sailors swore they were 75 ft. high) fell on the Flying Enterprise. With a cannonlike bang, her shuddering deck and hull cracked open, just forward of her squat, white superstructure...
...controls during this spectacular maneuver was Polish-born Test Pilot Janusz Zurakowski, who had worked out the first new aerobatic stunt in 20 years.* Squat, studious-looking Pilot Zurakowski flew with the R.A.F. after escaping from a Nazi prison camp, has three Luftwaffe kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt...
From the quiet, hardly obtrusive pile of Gothic buildings known as Princeton that squat on the New Jersey plains, have issued since its founding in 1746, men who have made the World shake, applaud, and learn. The university has produced men that made the country in which it is situated free, and shaped its growth...
...Squat, rumpled Mikhail Fedorov, 32, boss of the four-man Washington staff of Russia's Tass, is an aeronautical engineer, and worked at his profession in the U.S.S.R. When he came to Washington three years ago, Fedorov insisted that he also had some training with Tass in Moscow. But most Washington newsmen have come to the conclusion that he knows little of the newspaper business, though they concede that his engineering training is handy for the kind of intelligence reports done by Tass for Russian officials...
...they aren't directly in the shops, student often stand or squat outside is exchange he day's gossip. Given the right weather and the right time, Green Street becomes the most alive place in Northampton...