Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE are not many teams at Harvard that would warm up for a match by doing a bizarre set of exercises called 'The Titanic Twelve"--contortions which include squat-thrusts, double burbies, sit-ups-and-leg-overs...
People just love to give things to the British Museum. In the past two years, the squat Greek Revival treasure house on London's Great Russell Street has acquired, among other things, a 5,000-year-old porphyry frog from Egypt, a $1,000,000 collection of historical playing cards, the prow of a Viking ship, some rare 17th century music manuscripts, original letters of Kipling and Yeats, a mosaic pavement from ancient Rome-not to mention a copy of every book published in Great Britain...
...school is situated near Watertown Square in a foolish old white house with a large squat steeple and a barn behind. Its 18 rooms held 20 students last year, the school's first year, when the school had only grades nine and ten. By adding an eleventh grade this year the school has doubled its enrollment...
...Pentagon is the most formidable redoubt in official Washington. Squat and solid as a feudal fortress, it hunkers in a remote reclaimed Virginia swamp that used to be called Hell's Bottom, across the Potomac River from the spires, colonnades and domes of the federal city. Through its two tiers of subbasements and five aboveground stories, windowless corridors weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some...
...kicks. The hip-bo setup is nothing but filth, dope, narcotics, and sex. Our young people have got to be protected. The daughters of Cambridge residents, he says, must not be tempted. "Obviously I don't see myself as the father image of these girls," explains the Mayor, a squat man with a barrel chest and bull neck. "But I represent the thinking of a community...