Word: squats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misunderstood, feared, revered, and gossiped, the secret societies cap every Yale-man's ambitions. Their windowless, padlocked tombs squat on central points in the campus; tight-lipped members emerge from ponderous doors at midnight and lock-step through the streets of New Haven...
This is Hickman's third year at Yale and the squat, popular head coach is already assured of his best record since settling down in New Haven. The 1950 Bulldogs have won five games (Connecticut, Brown, Fordham, Columbia, Holy Cross) and have lost three (Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton). Comparative scores, against mutual opponents, a risky basis for prognostication at best, might just as well be discarded when it comes to Harvard-Yale, but they are set down here for the record: Yale 36, Brown 12; Harvard 14, Brown 13; Columbia 28, Harvard 7; Yale 20, Columbia 14; Cornell 28, Harvard...
...piano was sitting on the squat platform where Lowell's high table usually goes; Carmichael examined the instrument, and lifted off the front. Then he paused to tell the story of the astigmatic golfer. The house laughed, and Dr. Perkins blushed slightly, but laughed too. He hit four tentative chords, a phone started ringing outside the dining room door, and Carmichael drummed on the piano with his left hand. "Answer the phone," he said, in rhythm...
With this assured, Tammany would have had only to aim its squat, greying Candidate Ferdinand Pecora in the right direction, let go of his ankles and watch him go bobbing off to glory. The Republican challenger, Edward Corsi, had a good Italian name too, and had gotten headlines for his welfare and labor work. But 68-year-old Justice Pecora was remembered as the fearless Government counsel of the senatorial investigation of Wall Street in 1933, which not only led to the Securities & Exchange Commission but produced a deathless picture of J.P. Morgan cuddling a midget...
...populace which for some reason is titillated by horror; the greater the horror, the greater its titillation. Charles Addams is its deity. It chuckles weekly at his pictures of trains bearing down on people strapped to the rails, of teddy bears lashed to the fenders of toy cars, of squat little men sharpening the spikes of their iron fences...