Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fighting all the while, his men hacked from virgin jungle and sand dunes the airfields and bases needed to sustain the conflict at the far end of a 10,000-mile supply line. For two years, Westmoreland's search-and-destroy tactics battered his enemy to a counterpunching crouch along Viet Nam's borders. He built up American strength from some 20,000 men in mid-1964 to today's 533,000, and to the point where U.S. forces were invincible on battlefields. Methodically, Westmoreland laid foundations for victory in a protracted...
Saxsewell Mine No. 8, which burrows deep into a gentle West Virginia hillside, is only three feet high, and miners must crouch as they ride to work in tiny carts. Into the mine on May 6 at 7 a.m. went the first shift of 25 men; 15 began work near the head of the shaft, while the other ten manned a mechanical drill almost two miles from the mine entrance. At 9:45 a.m., a mass of water roared up from the far end of the mine, stranding the 15 on a lifesaving ledge. The unlucky ten working...
...girl and myself are despatched to get a bow. We go to the roof of the Barnard Library where the phys. ed. archery range is. We are in the midst of discovering how incredibly locked the cabinet is when a guard comes out on the roof. We crouch. He walks right past us. It would be just like TV except that I am so preoccupied with it being just like TV. After ten minutes he finds us. The girl laughs coyly and alleges that oh, we just came up to spend the night. I am rather taken with the idea...
...period of mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King. Judging by Hope's monologue, it would have been better not to try. "About the delay of two days," he began cheerfully, "it's been tough on the nominees. How would you like to spend two days in a crouch?" His final assignment was even more painful: the recital of Academy self-congratulation comparing such movie pioneers as Jesse Lasky and Samuel Goldwyn to "the man from Atlanta" because "they, too, had a dream...
Somewhere in the commodious vaults where dwell the souls of playwrights dead and gone. Two figures, faces wreathed in mist, crouch over a chess table. After a time the vapours clear, and we see the faces of Bertolt Brecht and Henrik Ibsen. Brecht speaks first...