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Word: crouching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets clean away with it. His florid, utterly unorthodox style, his physical grotesqueries on the podium are often taken as vanity or exhibitionism. Admirers prefer to think them the result of his notable freedom from conventional inhibitions. His range of gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing contrast after his stiff, portentous progress to the rostrum-the short, plumpish, dandified figure, the familiar imperial, the slow walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personality | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Yardling team also dropped a close one to the Dartmouth freshmen, 5 to 4, at Hanover Saturday. In singles, only Dan Mayers and Bob Crouch won in the fifth and sixth spots. Both took long three-set matches. The Crimson won two out of the three doubles matches, however, in two sets. Geoff Ball and Mayers won at two and Mike Levinson and Ed Koerner triumphed at three. In the deciding match of the day, Captain Alex Haegler and Crouch lost, 6-3, 3-6, 3-6, to the Indian freshmen. The freshmen ended the season with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Beat Tennismen, 5-4, But Lose Non-League Match | 5/27/1952 | See Source »

Captain Alex Haegler will again play first today, followed by Ed Koerner, Mike Levinson, Geoff Ball, Dan Mayers and Bob Crouch. Wynn is still not certain of his doubles teams...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Crimson Tennis Teams Play At Hanover; Ufford Captain | 5/24/1952 | See Source »

Haegler and Crouch (H) defeated Cullin and Fischer, 6-3, 6-4; Mayers and Ball (H) defeated Wachshan and Eells, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2; and Fanning and Jim Taylor (D) defeated Doug Manchester and Dave Berndt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deerfield Tennis Team Defeats Yard Squad, 6-3; Wister Missing | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...Yardling tennis team will play host to Deerfield on the Soldiers Field courts at 345 p.m. today. Coach Corey Wynn plans to use Captain Alex Haegler, Ed Koerner, Mike Levinson, Geoff Ball, Danny Mayers, and Bob Crouch, in that order, in the singles play this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tennis Team Will Oppose Deerfield | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

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