Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These hot nights, when quiet Indians in white suits squat along the highway watching cars from Vera Cruz labor up the mountains, they have something deep and puzzling to talk about. Today a veterinarian decided that one of Juan Fernandez' five steers was infected. Tomorrow soldiers will come, shoot it, bury it deep. Then they will shoot all the healthy cattle in the village herd and send that meat to market. The small owners will all be paid market prices. But what of the rule that no new cattle can graze on village land for two months? Where will...
...since 1929 have U.S. gallery-goers seen the work, of Ivan Městrović, Yugoslavia's great sculptor. Sponsored by the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts & Letters, the exhibition was the artist's first anywhere since 1938. Squat, bearded Městrović, 63, whose art looks back to the past, had been physically caught up in the present...
...called not for its rich orchards or ripe vineyards (it hasn't any) but for its big crop of babies. (Latest count: 800, with 288 on the way.) Fertile Valley is Michigan State College's "vet village," a collection of apartments, trailers and prefabs that is as squat and ugly as dozens of other emergency campus camps from the state of Washington to Florida...
...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
...crowded place, with 7,000 enrolled-2,000 more than in prewar days. The old college suite of bedroom and sitting room, with a servant for every "staircase," has given way to the shared austerity of a frequently servantless "bed-sitting-room." Nissen huts (British version of Quonset huts) squat in the quads; the students roam far & wide in search of "diggings" (off-campus rooms) in increasingly industrial Oxford town...