Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Kerr is tortured by the feeling that she is "out of touch culturally" and never sees the same TV that other people see. "For one thing, we have one of the first sets ever built, which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation...
...temple exterior is a concrete hemisphere carried on eight squat arches. Within the arches is a platform supported on columns. This raised platform, standing free of the walls, is the temple floor. The whitewashed, hemispherical interior is bare of ornament, yet in a sense is adorned by light, which ripples up from below on all sides. There are no windows...
Typical shark was squat, hoarse-voiced Max Chester (convictions for extortion, bookmaking, robbery), who walked into the offices of a Brooklyn plumbing supply manufacturer, Paul Claude, one day in 1954. Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself...
...Squat, shrill-voiced Midwest Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, 44, barreled into Chicago last week and kicked off his campaign to succeed discredited Dave Beck as president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, biggest, most muscular union...
When FBI agents arrested squat, tough Teamster James Riddle Hoffa in Washington last March, it looked as if the U.S. Government might have an airtight case against him. Jimmy Hoffa, 44, chairman of the Central States Teamster Conference and most powerful of the International Teamsters Union's vice presidents, had blundered thuddingly into a trap set by the Senate's labor-rackets investigating committee. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy (younger brother of Mas-sachusett's Senator Jack Kennedy) confidently vowed to jump off the Capitol dome if Hoffa wriggled out of the charges brought against...