Word: crouching
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...geology classes," says another official of the Teachers' Federation, "we have 32 microscopes for 540 students. For about half the audience in our amphitheater there is standing room only. Students squat on window sills or crouch on the floor; half cannot see the blackboard...
...production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former...
...hunches, gambles and indecisions of a competitor who hates to be outguessed, hates even more to lose. He remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition...
...virtue rode through Hyde Park in such splendid carriages or on such fine horses that the popular euphemism for rich prostitutes of the time was "pretty horse-breakers." One, Lizzie Howard, became the mistress of Napoleon III, and a French countess, and died a rich woman. Cora Pearl (born Crouch and no kin to Author Pearl), one of the few prostitutes to win mention in the Dictionary of National Biography, also made good in Paris. The book's title is provided by Catherine...
Architecturally, Adams includes two fragments of that vanished land, the Gold Coast, where the walls are dark with oak paneling, the windows small and leaded, the bathtubs crouch on scaley clawed feet, and the square swimming pool steams with the mosiac erudition of Xanadu...