Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
What Chances? Thus, with every detail worked out, even to the designation of the trees behind which broadcasters should crouch, the veteran German Army took on its hugest job. Though bigger potential armies (10,000,000 Russians, 9,000,000 Germans) had never fought on a bigger potential front, the weathered Germans began fighting Russia just as they had opened against all the other opponents, with apparent calm, with obvious savvy...
Next best position is a forward crouch. Its advantages: 1) it is instinctively assumed during the strain of fighting; 2) it lowers the head, sends more blood to the brain; 3) it presses in the belly, thus preventing the "pooling of blood"; 4) it has a strong psychological effect which tones up blood pressure and resistance...
Frank Aydelotte, 59, is a compactly built fellow with an athlete's crouch, a bald head and a warm, crinkly smile. His big, bold ears are a campus joke which Dr. Aydelotte enjoys as much as anybody. When he became Swarthmore's president in 1921, after teaching English at Indiana University - his alma mater - and M.I.T., Frank Aydelotte had two aims: 1) to make bright students study more; 2) to de-professionalize college athletics...
Because of this scaffoldy buildup, what happened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week made every fight fan sit up and take notice. From the opening bell, the challenger befuddled the champion. Fighting from an apelike crouch, he weaved and bobbed, annoyed slow-thinking Louis, threw him off balance, crowded him against the ropes. These tactics had been tried on Louis before...