Word: squatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force last week gave Lockheed Aircraft Corp. a contract to turn out a turboprop cargo assault transport "in quantity," the first such U.S. production contract. Powered by four Allison engines, the squat, bulbous C-130 is designed for quick shuttling of tactical weapons in airborne assaults, has a ramp for hustling trucks and howitzers aboard and a rear opening for air drops. Retooling for production of the C-130 will start shortly at Lockheed's big Marietta, Ga. plant...
...member of my Class of 1900. he was also my table mate; for a year we ate mutton together at Table 6 in Memorial Hall. Among other 1900 men at the Table was Ralph Kent, of Concord, New Hampshire, who was as long as Rinehart was squat. They roamed the Yard together, a sort of Harvard "Mutt and Jeff...
Money was the most critical shortage. With zooming costs and an iron-clad budget, Harrison's designers had to redraw the plans for the Assembly Building nine times to make successive economies in size and building materials. The resulting design was too squat, Harrison thought...
...behind Tabet's mission to the U.S. Ambassador was squat and suave Ahmed Aboud Pasha, one of the three top figures in the Wafd, a multimillionaire who dabbles in sugar, fertilizer and shipping lines. Premier Hilaly was poking into some 140 tax-evasion charges against Aboud which the Wafd had quashed before Hilaly came to office...
What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...