Word: crouching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coiled to the left of home plate, he has scarcely stirred from the position he staked nearly 23 major league seasons, almost 4,192 hits, ago. The brush-cut hair that blew to bangs and billowed to bouffant has been tamed and dyed. The kneesprung crouch has lost barely a trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat...
...squeeze, and they knew it was coming, so they pitched out,” Vance said. “I threw my bat out there, and the catcher came out of his crouch early...
Located in the basement of Holmes, the Pforzheimer Art Studio is a haven for those who delight in painting and sculpting. For key access to the space and more information on classes and supplies, contact tutors R. Craig Crouch (crouchri@gse.harvard.edu) and Valencia D. Thomas ’96 (vthomas1@partners.org...
...that they might anticipate from solving [the nuclear] issue." But U.S. officials concede that it's going to take time to get the five other participants?Japan and Russia being the other two powers?to come up with a unified approach that will cajole Kim out of his defiant crouch. For now, both publicly and privately, the Bush Administration is playing good cop, insisting it simply wants to return to the six-party format, that diplomatic and economic goodies await North Korea at the end of those talks, and that any military option is out of the question. Boucher last...
...color line but insisted, to white and black critics, that his color was irrelevant. The title of Blackness--the companion to last year's book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward--is no throwaway. Towering and obsidian-dark, Johnson was the kind of black man, critic Stanley Crouch says in the documentary, who makes whites "think they're in the presence of something aboriginal...