Word: squatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
Hour after hour, as the blocks-long, four-abreast line of patient, pious Mexicans inched forward, a squat, swarthy man moved stolidly along with it. It was worth the trouble, he reflected. It was not every day that a Mexican could see so holy a relic with his own eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...
...long last, the squat man was inside the elaborate baroque doors of the San Francisco church. Over the rebozo-covered heads of the women ahead of him, he could actually see the ten-foot cross with its glass box containing the holy splinter mounted at its center. His pulse beat faster. Finally, as he came abreast of the cross, his pocket knife flashed. Shrilly, the woman behind him screamed. "Virgen santisima! A sacrilege! This man has cut a piece of the Holy Cross...
...most enterprising of the new generation was squat, baby-faced Photographer Ivo Meldolesi, 34, who was acquitted of collaboration charges in 1945 for "insufficient proof of guilt." Last spring, Meldolesi made front pages in Europe and the U.S. with two notable beats. Masquerading as a Capri fisherman, he snapped the only picture of Britain's Princess Margaret in a bathing suit; later, he surprised camera-shy Greta Garbo without her hat, got a shot of her covering her face with her long, tawny hair. Last week, Meldo-lesi's energy and enterprise landed him his biggest scoop...