Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean, sad-eyed son of a North Carolina Baptist preacher, Paul Crouch drifted away from the South at 21. He joined the U.S. Army, preached Communism to his buddies at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, was court-martialed and sent to Alcatraz. After serving three years there, he was dressed out in 1928 and turned to full-time work for Communism. In 1942 he broke with the party...
...said we British are cold fish? All hearts went out to brave, Queenloving Mrs. E. Lightfoote of Crouch End the other day when the story of her solitary, all-night vigil outside the Palace was given to the world. And [secretly] how we all envied her! To fasten herself with chains to the railings in case she was moved during the night, and then to suffer the disappointment of falling in a fit of hysteria at the sight of a Curtain being pulled open at one of the Palace Windows shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with...
...quick, Pudge was the first guard in football history to run offensive interference; on defense, Pudge favored an almost upright stance, disdaining to crouch. "Take it from me," he maintained, "a man is no good on his knees." Pudge made Walter Camp's first All-America team in 1889, made it again the next two years. At Yale, Pudge's teams, playing a 13-to 16-game schedule, won 53 and lost two (to Princeton and Harvard). The two defeats rankled in the heart of Pudge Heffelfinger until the day he died, at his home in Blessing, Texas...
...nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives at a field while a fourth circles overhead, spotting. Have they sighted the Viet Minh who made the ambush on this road, or another band? Just...
...guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...