Word: crouched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stones complained that an official distracted him during his two-minute pre-jump crouch by calling out the time remaining and breaking his concentration...
Embree starts his run at the bar from the left, while Stones approaches the bar from the right. The rules say that a jumper may crouch and stare at the bar only two minutes before starting...
...while Stones complained about the crouch, Embree could have griped about his run. Both runners need a lot of room for their approaches, and the officials angled the position of the pit to the right to accomodate the high stepping Stones. This in turn forced Embree to shorten his run from his usual ten steps down to eight. But the shortened run and the so-called poor footing that Stones also complained of, did not stop Embree from attaining what is now his second best mark of the season...
...overheard; others are told by Laura herself. Their precise meanings are elusive, their relevance to Laura indeterminate. Yet all equate the passing of tune with irreparable loss, and Laura comes to understand the relationship between her dead brother and Jim: "I want to be as he is now, to crouch at the starting line and I'm furious that...
Every so often cars just fail to come around. Later, on our way out, we will see them being towed down the track, some grotesquely mangled, others strangely untouched by the misfortune that cut short their brief plea for glory. Like taut, shiny beasts they crouch, ready to spring at any moment--except that their insides are shot to hell. As the race progresses the cars become more strung out. The engines now scream shrilly. Carlos Reutemann, who has already won races this year, is leading. Reggazoni, Ferrari's No. 1 driver and hope for the championship, has dropped...