Word: crouching
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...match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian Hellman knows...
...insists that, while these are all to the good, evacuation is all wrong. Every park, garden and open space in London and other British cities should immediately be dug up in a system of twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions of Londoners should then crouch in these trenches (which would be covered with timbers and green sod to disguise them from the enemy) every time an air raid warning sounds. Meanwhile, 100,000 unemployed British miners would "win the war'' by digging hundreds of miles of tunnels 60 feet below ground...
...great roar as Max Schmeling and Harry Thomas clambered through the thick maroon ropes that enclose the smoky, brightly-lit boxing ring. Referee Arthur Donovan mumbled orders in the centre of the ring, the fighters moved back to their corners, and the bell clanged. Both came out in a crouch, eyed each other for a moment. Then Thomas cracked Schmeling with a tentative left, first blow of an uncommonly bloody fight...
When Publisher Quigley dropped his guard and went into a crouch: ("Well, what do you want us to do?") Professor Eastman straightened him up with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below...
...After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch not only became the accepted way to ski but, by making skiing easier, made it popular all over the world. Hired as a ski teacher by St. Anton's Hotel Post when he was 17, Hannes Schneider taught the hotel...