Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squat, blue-jowled man with the broken nose and the meaty shoulders of a middleweight boxer pushed his way last week through a swirling crowd of aides, secretaries and Cabinet ministers waving papers at him. "If it can wait until July 20, keep it," he snapped. "If it can't wait, do it yourself...
Actually Catlin never could match the skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...
...Russians Ahead? Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above...
Tower-struck freshmen will still complain about the building's squat, bulging appearance. But Latin-chalked facades do not an outhouse make, while big rooms and closeness seem to insure a satisfied full house. With a system of assignment to Claverly as indiscriminate as assignment to an A or F entry, the Hall should continue to serve its useful, respected purpose. There is nothing radical in a revolution that can achieve such ends...
...unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis, a graceful one hundred and forty-two foot steel ketch...