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Word: crouched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle of Barcelona | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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