Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Publisher Quigley dropped his guard and went into a crouch: ("Well, what do you want us to do?") Professor Eastman straightened him up with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below...
...Garden, accustomed to the endless transformations of this chameleon edifice, stood aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports shows in Boston last year...
...After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch not only became the accepted way to ski but, by making skiing easier, made it popular all over the world. Hired as a ski teacher by St. Anton's Hotel Post when he was 17, Hannes Schneider taught the hotel...
...plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence of his senior, Hannes Schneider, that a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of skiing is essential to maximum pleasure and safety. The fundamentals of the Arlberg technique are the "voriage" or "forward crouch," always keeping the heels on the skis, medium "edge" on turns with emphasis upon body movement, and holding both skis to the snow as long as possible...
...Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with the legs of a chair. When McAvoy led for the face, Lewis jarred him with a left jab. When he fought from a crouch, Lewis used an uppercut or chopped at his ears with a hacking right. After 15 rounds of this, the judges unanimously awarded Lewis the decision...