Word: squatted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
Misunderstood, feared, revered, and gossiped, the secret societies cap every Yale-man's ambitions. Their windowless, padlocked tombs squat on central points in the campus; tight-lipped members emerge from ponderous doors at midnight and lock-step through the streets of New Haven...
This is Hickman's third year at Yale and the squat, popular head coach is already assured of his best record since settling down in New Haven. The 1950 Bulldogs have won five games (Connecticut, Brown, Fordham, Columbia, Holy Cross) and have lost three (Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton). Comparative scores, against mutual opponents, a risky basis for prognostication at best, might just as well be discarded when it comes to Harvard-Yale, but they are set down here for the record: Yale 36, Brown 12; Harvard 14, Brown 13; Columbia 28, Harvard 7; Yale 20, Columbia 14; Cornell 28, Harvard...
...piano was sitting on the squat platform where Lowell's high table usually goes; Carmichael examined the instrument, and lifted off the front. Then he paused to tell the story of the astigmatic golfer. The house laughed, and Dr. Perkins blushed slightly, but laughed too. He hit four tentative chords, a phone started ringing outside the dining room door, and Carmichael drummed on the piano with his left hand. "Answer the phone," he said, in rhythm...