Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonnet, who by no coincidence is also coach of the French national ski team. It was Bonnet, along with Olympic Gold Medalist Vuarnet, who developed the "egg position" used by Périllat and the other members of the French team. The position, a sort of high, shoulder-down crouch, is so tiring to main tain that the French team members must take special exercises to build up the quadriceps muscles in their thighs. Its advantages: a properly low center of gravity, better aerodynamics. And for Guy Périllat, who hits flat-out speeds of up to 70 m.p.h...
...Best evidence now is that Richard III, though puny and below average height (whereas eldest brother Edward IV was a muscular giant of 6 ft. 4 in.), was not visibly deformed. "Crouch-back" probably referred to a shoulder slope induced by vigorous practice which overdeveloped the muscles of his sword arm. Shakespeare, truckling to the Tudor court, made Plantagenet Richard a monster...
...less than an hour, the customers can cross the Rockies in an ore bucket, cruise the Great Lakes in a sternwheeler, crouch in a bunker at Cape Canaveral and watch the missile gap narrow with a perfect shot every six minutes. On the northern outskirts of New York City (the real one), where big, white-ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway...
...every detail of the picture, as though it were not intended to represent a reality but a nightmare. The entire film was photographed at night in what seems to be the crypt of a cathedral. The ceilings are so low that much of the time the actors have to crouch, and often they scuttle about the floor like giant, furry rats...