Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Kenny ducked into a full racer's crouch and the hurricane struck me again. With some difficulty, much like swimming a few inches back to a levee against a flood, I managed to bury the bottom of my visor against Kenny's bowed back. Barns, fences, houses, cows, trailers, bridges, gardens, signs, dogs and clotheslines flew back. A calm center within me, which had long ago abandoned the idea of bailing out, began to consider two things. One, how far would we roll if a crash occurred. And two, how fast we were going, which would explain the number...
Should you behold a panther crouch, Prepare to say Ouch...
Shifting stance once again, the President dropped into a fighting crouch, dukes-up on Watergate and the threat of impeachment. Conciliation having failed in Operation Candor, he and his defenders took the offensive, carrying out that pugnacious vow made last week at a private White House meeting with a group of Republican Congressmen. The themes were clear: he was innocent; he would never resign; he would resist impeachment as a narrow partisan political attack on him. And he got some help when Egil Krogh Jr. contended that the President was not responsible for one burglary carried out by the White...
Even some conservative members of Heath's own party were critical. Declared Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, a Tory M.P.: "This bonehead government has driven the union moderates into the militant camp. It now will cost much more to get the miners back to work." Understated David Crouch, also a Conservative M.P.: "I don't believe that this confrontation [with the miners] is desirable...
...Crouch, like a growing number of other observers, fears that the Prime Minister's militant attitude could touch off class strife in Britain's stratified society. Britons have generally sympathized with the miners' plight, but there is growing resentment against them over the coal shortage that they have caused by their month-long work slowdown...