Word: crouching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biggest difficulty is trying to forget that he is a shortstop. Fielding ground balls, he scoops them up as if he had a quick throw to make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...
Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, strolling to a political meeting beside Britain's River Crouch, saw a little girl fall from a jetty. He ripped off his Savile Row jacket and plunged in after her. But a dinghy got there first. Sir Hartley rose from the waters, a study in frustration and soggy drawers. He addressed the meeting in borrowed pants and an old sweater, to which hecklers were especially attentive...
...gift of producing a flow of facile, taut dialogue. Finally, the cast is enthusiastic and, in the main, knows its craft. Madge Evans, despite a vigorous between-acts clawing from the Bergman acolytes, is fluent, intent on what she's doing, and very good to look at: and Richard Crouch is quick, practical, and harried as a stage manager...
With other ex-Piggly Wigglers, Crouch scraped together $40,000 and bought six Saunders stores on the San Francisco Peninsula. By 1940, the chain had 21 links and an annual gross of $4,708,000. This year, with 30 stores, Lucky expects to gross $28 million...
...Crouch and associates sold their interests in Lucky Stores in 1943 to Manhattan's Blair & Co., Inc. for $276,000 and 20% of the profits for five years. Crouch stayed as president on $46,000 salary. Crouch, who thinks that the grocery business is "one of the sloppiest in the world," had long dreamed of improving it with streamlined super markets. He now plans four more beautiful stores...