Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 32, Sherrill was awarded Boston's richest Episcopal parish-squat, medieval-looking Trinity Church in Copley Square. From the pulpit once filled by the great Phillips Brooks, he began to crowd Trinity with Harvard undergraduates as well as Back Bay Brahmins. Sherrill's preaching, says Trinity's former senior warden, Alexander Whiteside, is not spellbinding, but "it's pretty damned good. He always gives you something to take home . . . He's the most sensible and sane man I have ever known. When the Russian crisis began to look serious last year, I said...
...time of the great raid on Austria, Suleiman had begun to suspect that the Turk had ridden as far as he could on the road of conquest, and that it was time to squat on the carpet of diplomacy and consolidate the great adventure into a great state. Accordingly, the Sultan struck alliances with France and Venice, reorganized the legal code, expanded the educational system, opened his borders to European immigration, and announced the pax Turcica...
Inviting Burglars. In New Orleans, Kefauver drove into town past big neon signs advertising Costello's swank Beverly Club. New Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness...
...ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade-dress line of soldiers. Giles's caption: "His argument is that as a taxpayer he has as much right to inspect things as anybody else...
Slightly frayed at the edges, and beer-spattered, the CRIMSON's camel-hair welcome mat will again squat at its 14 Plympton Street doorstep tonight to greet latecomers to the fall competitions...