Word: crouching
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Wednesday was just a bad day all around, a day almost perfectly orchestrated to shove us back into a crouch. Congress, which is incapable of speaking with one voice in tranquil times, could not have mixed its messages more thoroughly if it had tried. The letter to Daschle, mailed on Oct. 8 and, like the NBC envelope, postmarked Trenton, had been opened Monday morning in a suite full of people. By Tuesday evening, even as 1,400 Senate staff members stood in long lines to get their noses swabbed, scientists at Fort Detrick, Md., the army's bioterror research base...
...Stanley Crouch's latest book is Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel of Blues and Swing
...great. Most of the time, however, the dangers are mere neurochemical lies--and the lies have to be exposed. "Your instincts tell you to escape or avoid," says Phillipson. "But what you really need to do is face down the fear." When you spend your life in a cautionary crouch, the greatest relief of all may come from simply standing...
...arrival at the crease, he studied the field; he did not perfunctorily glance about as most batsmen do. Satisfied, he'd utter a shrill "right" and crouch over his uncommonly light bat. That single word sent a powerful message: Bradman was ready. As the bowler moved in, Bradman revealed two more idiosyncrasies. First, he did not tap his bat, a habit observed by virtually every batsman at all levels. He was perfectly still?and still smiling. Second, his grip was unusual, his bottom hand turned more toward the front than the textbooks recommend...
...more poorly designed reviews from Washington, will be less cooperative with future safety efforts. For some, the Alaska-inspired audits may have poisoned the safety well. "Honestly, I don't trust them anymore," says a former FAA official. "The FAA has put the industry back into a defensive crouch...