Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four blue-jerseyed men facing him are mountains of muscle. Alert and agile as jungle cats, two linebackers crouch outside the ends. Ranged in an arc behind them are four lean, whippet-fast backs...
...sense of life in Pasternak is heightened by the flashing vigor of his imagery; sometimes he welds disparate images to startle the reader into a rebirth of wonder. At the first patter of a summer drizzle, "dust swallowed up the pills of raindrops." In an offshore storm, "skies crouch lower/ Flying downward/ Steep/ Sea slopes/ And finger the deep/ With wings of clamorous gulls...
...face-half of it blown right out." The British held the hospital for only 36 hours. On D-plus-one the Germans swamped the hospital area, took Paul prisoner with a shouted "Hände hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...
...fathers hunted seals and lived in igloos now drive bulldozers and travel by outboard-powered glass-fiber canoe. One Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...
...Association. In Dallas, when Charles Crouch was on trial for drunken driving, Prosecutor Paul W. Leech tried to trap him by asking, "Did you see me at the party?", and Crouch answered: "I saw one drunk. Was that...