Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tons of methyl isocyanate blanketed the Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
...furniture was never again so dashing and hard-edged. He spent the '30s making cantilevered chairs, each a reworking of an idea that the Bauhaus stars Breuer and Mart Stam had established using tubular steel in the '20s. The cantilever is springy, like an athlete's crouch. Indeed, Aalto's cantilevered chairs have a cheerfully anthropomorphic profile. His most splendid variations on the theme also seem the most characteristically Scandinavian: after he had tried seats and backs of plain plywood and boxy upholstery, Aalto designed birch frames crisscrossed with black linen webbing. The effect...
Minutes after dawn on a chilly morning, high in the Rocky Mountains, Jeff Madison tethers his horse in a stand of aspen trees and moves slowly in a crouch past a beaver lodge, through grass still wet with dew. Below in a meadow at the edge of the forest, some 50 elk are feeding. Quietly, so as not to spook the animals, Madison sets up his 60-power spotting scope on a tripod and begins to count the elk, classifying them...
...heads are covered with the distinctive Maori designs used as tattoos. The slanty, abalone-shell eyes are as impenetrable as mirrors. Sometimes a broad-based tongue juts out in the Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy's temple and then to lift off the top of his skull...
...entirely resolve continue to dog her. Even assuming, however, that most voters now view the matter as essentially closed and turn their attention to other issues, the controversy was a significant setback for the Democratic campaign, blunting its post-convention momentum and forcing it into a defensive crouch for nearly two weeks. For Ferraro, the affair probably comes out as a wash. She has lost some of the freshness and excitement that she brought to the ticket as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party. Many voters are now likely to see her less...