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"crouched" Definitions
  1. in a position with your body close to the ground and your legs bent under you

597 Sentences With "crouched"

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Others crouched behind tables as bullets whizzed above their heads.
They crouched in the ferns, and the ferns covered them.
He had crouched in his house when he heard gunshots.
He crouched beside me, lobbing a fist into my head.
Kershaw crouched on the mound, felled again by postseason misery.
He crouched by the water and took out the knife.
A hollow siren cued us to assume this crouched position.
I crouched and let my hair fan out in the water.
Is she standing normally and not crouched down or hyper-alert?
Valdsgaard crouched down to let us look under the virtual couch.
George crouched into a defensive position, his AK by his side.
My coach crouched down and looked me right in the eyes.
Ms. Scintu-Waetzmann, 29, crouched in her dress in her photo.
Then I crouched and ran a finger through the ceramic silt.
Then the nurse crouched down in the fetal position and wept.
"Bennett was seen crouched down behind a gaming machine," he said.
Another soldier crouched down to take a picture with his phone.
Dancers are often crouched on the ground as well as upright.
First, the two played catch while d'Arnaud crouched behind home plate.
Frazier, who has two children who are younger than 3, crouched.
She said she was crouched down at the restaurant, stacking glassware.
She got out of the taxi and crouched over the boy.
One of the agents walked into the bush and crouched down.
A handful of paramedics crouched around him, tending to his wounds.
One woman in scrubs crouched down and wrapped her arms around Ruthie.
The boys were crouched in the dirt, the marbles pinging between them.
They wage war remotely, crouched over a phalanx of individual battle stations.
I put up my hands and slowly crouched until I was kneeling.
She seemed to be crouched on the windowsill, slumped against the glass.
I crouched down, picked a grape, and popped it into my mouth.
She crouched low and shimmied backward, luring Fontijn with her hands down.
When the door swung open, she crouched and stretched her arms wide.
On defense, he crouched low and extended those giant mitts of his.
The three helpers crouched in a line in front of the basket.
The child, the team said, was most likely in a crouched position.
She crouched over and held her hands to her face in disbelief.
She saw Katie in full regalia, and crouched down next to her.
Only very aggressive, crouched rushes will let Lomachenko lean on his man.
Aerial shots from news helicopters showed nearly 20 officers crouched behind Capps' SUV.
David Jose Vallenilla, 22, was crouched down on the highway by the fence.
He lifts up the stairs and finds Gilberto crouched in a hardwood crawlspace.
Others crouched under chairs and tables as the gunmen fired indiscriminately, witnesses said.
The librarian got to Jay, crouched down, noticed his shallow breathing and discoloration.
In the patch of grass behind your house, A neighbor crouched and waited.
There's even a recommended lightning position: crouched down, keeping the feet close together.
Two gunmen waited about a dozen steps away, crouched behind several parked S.U.V.s.
A boy and girl are crouched on the pavement absorbed in a game.
We waited, crouched in horror, as the debris field blasted over our heads.
Crouched, arms swinging, he could resemble a dancer from a West African tradition.
His father was a histrionic type, eternally crouched against imagined (and experienced) tragedy.
A bystander crouched on a median, then scrambled away as officers closed in.
I let Sylvia carry the banner, while, I'm ashamed to admit, I crouched.
Pierzynski strapped on the gear, crouched behind the plate and found a permanent home.
Then Newton crouched and did a little shuffle and went bouncing into Stewart's arms.
The gunman, his back to the officers, was about to shoot a crouched student.
We crouched behind a trailer near the stage, and it was constant, steady firing.
They're hiding in stalls and crouched behind the horses at the merry-go-round.
He crouched down a little to kick a step stool closer to her podium.
Grandparents crouched over, comparing notes, chattering excitedly when they find numbers to their liking.
He slid to the deck, crouched with head hung, and broke down in tears.
He crouched behind a police vehicle, applying tourniquets, thinking shots were still being fired.
In one swift movement he crouched, slipped off the king, slid on another puppet.
He listened to her story, then crouched next to her chair and hugged her.
She was crouched in the mud of her vegetable garden, picking zucchini for risotto.
Amin crouched next to his mother, Nurasha, who threw her scarf over his head.
While authorities worked to clear buildings, panicked students crouched in halls as helicopters buzzed overhead.
Kamila is crouched down, laughing at the camera, her rifle propped up next to her.
Duarte then recorded several minutes of the lockdown as she was crouched under her desk.
Warren crouched down to talk to 6-year-old Maddie O'Donnell and her mom, Jamie.
For an animal that's crouched motionless in a coil, that's an insane amount of speed.
A few subsequent images show him crouched, perhaps trying to climb back onto his horse.
Romero crouched down and cradled the senator as he lay bleeding on the kitchen floor.
He crouched six feet from the girl as she looked up at her mother, screaming.
The artists here often painted from the viewpoint of a hard-working gardener, crouched down.
There, they find Nick, who's already undone his belt, crouched over a passed out Cheryl.
Rod Carew crouched so he would not be overpowered by fastballs up in the zone.
My masseuse was yelling at me and pointing to the floor, so I crouched down.
Upon exiting the castle, he had spotted a dozen people crouched in the building's vestibule.
Crouched among Mr. Vidich's sound and lighting contraptions, barely moving, she lit up the space.
So he ran round the back of his house, crouched down, and did a poo.
He crouched down and tried to eat the sample from the spoon in my hands.
In reality, I wasn't crouched down outside a therapist's door, no, that would be creepy.
They've forgotten about me, still crouched on the cobblestones with tears dripping from my chin.
When I returned, we all crouched down around the drain under the high-powered light.
He nails SpongeBob's cackle and crouched walk, not to mention his relentless, wide-eyed cheer.
Men crouched on the floor, leaned against one another, hung from the rafters in hammocks.
Its strange possessive mewling, crouched over the wren, the bird like a knot of wood.
Amanda snapped a photo of him crouched behind the court, racquet in hand, studying me.
Wild animal tamers at a circus in Moscow crouched round a phone streaming the game.
In one scene, Natour and five dancers perform a 'hunt,' crouched low in a primordial hunch.
When the ball flipped toward the backstop, Hudson crouched and held his head in his hands.
He's palpably anxious, crouched a good distance away while he waits for the police to arrive.
Crouched in a corner, Ikuenobe barely raised his head as the list of names grew longer.
Two white Nao robots are motionless, crouched atop a wooden table, facing away from one another.
Some had entered at odd, multiple angles as people crouched in an attempt to protect themselves.
Schoolchildren in another part of town crouched down to the ground before hurrying inside a gymnasium.
Chera Kowalski crouched next to his limp body, a small syringe in her gloved hand. Squeeze.
Terrified residents ran into the streets, where they crouched and prayed as earthquake sirens went off.
The group can be seen crouched on their ship's deck, with their hands over their heads.
We're the ones crouched monthly under desks in a darkened room, hoping that it's a drill.
I called to him again, but he crouched down suddenly, as though startled, and stayed there.
FFI resistance leaders crouched and ran from door to door, pointing to the rooftops and windows.
A rock marked the source, a chip of granite shoulder; I threw it aside and crouched.
Aljahmi's opponent was quick, active, and crouched so small that he made for a difficult target.
He crouched down, reached in for a package of confetti near the back of the shelf.
In this slightly crouched posture, and with a hint of healthy self-doubt, Foer proceeds quickly.
When Ms. Ettel turned and saw she was being recorded, she immediately crouched behind a wall.
When visitors showed up at the family's new home in Philadelphia, he crouched behind the sofa.
The raw video footage showed that Mr. Trump had crouched down to shake the boy's hand.
Does Flynn have knowledge of something so damaging that it keeps Trump crouched in his defense?
Crouched over packing detergent for the camp, Arias, who arrived in August, said he remains hopeful.
Both videos then show Officer Amiott crouched over Mr. Hubbard, who is lying on the street.
BROCKPORT, N.Y. — They crouched and hid, using the gray, rainy skies and fallow fields as camouflage.
A sparkly gold cape trailed behind her as she crouched and leapt across the makeshift stage.
After the chat, Systrom, who is 289, posted a Boomerang video of himself crouched among the celebrities.
They stood up against the barrier and crouched low on the ground for the best photo angles.
"They don't want us to make the city dirty," he says, crouched beside some fugitive mango-sellers.
On a cold afternoon, day laborers crouched against a wall in the sunlight, chatting while sipping tea.
On the first, she over-rotated her vault and crouched down on the landing before rolling over.
After hearing the shots, he crouched, holding a revolver, behind his car, he told the Courier-Journal.
But I've also been crouched behind a couch or sprawled out on a bed while they sleep.
I crouched behind a wheel until those tires were used to race us back toward a shelter.
Jamie crouched to put on more logs, reaching his face toward the flame to reignite his rollie.
She crouched down in front of the clothes, her face buried in the remnants of her father.
Allowing Republicans to talk about social programs in broad strokes crouched in misleading statistics is political malpractice.
In the image, Blac Chyna crouched in front of a mirror, with her bare bum completely visible.
In Paris's classroom, Arnold crouched down next to the boy, in the narrow space between the bookshelves.
I tried to hold myself together, but as I crouched down to pet Pudge, I started sobbing.
As a cameraman crouched before him, he began a Facebook Live feed for his nearly 250,000 followers.
For a moment, she said, she crouched there, terrified that the gunman would come looking for them.
As I walked out the door, he crouched down to make sure I got my shoes on.
They sank to the turf, or crouched low on their haunches, holding their heads in their hands.
Congress, unfortunately, remains crouched and trembling in a dark corner, hoping this is all a bad dream.
"You cannot invest successfully," he said, "when you are crouched under your desk in a fetal position."
The next day, they crouched on the ground and used their hands to mop up the blood.
Defenders crouched over glass bottles, filling them with fuel and stuffing them with fuses to make bombs.
The forelimbs of this dinosaur are more "crouched," while being very thick to support its giant body.
As medical attendants ran onto the court, del Potro crouched beside Almagro and tried to comfort him.
And then each of them crouched, disappearing under the archway inside the sewer, headlamps guiding the way.
As the crowd warmed up, Martelly crouched on the edge of the stage, growling into the microphone.
The work depicts a young child crouched over a sewing machine as he produces Union Jack bunting.
He said he crouched behind parked cars for cover and yelled at the gunman to drop his weapon.
The duo were also photographed together before the event, talking and smiling as Maxwell crouched against a wall.
Clay darted in and out, punching down on Moore who was crouched and too slow to pursue him.
He was hard to photograph because he kept giving me head butts whenever I crouched on the ground.
Stirling crouched on her partner&aposs knee and complained again of pain before getting the judges&apos critiques.
Reliving a childhood playing in the woods She walked over sunbaked rocks, crouched and crawled through hardwood hammocks.
Then I wandered around the living room where he was crouched at the desk working on his laptop.
On the beach road, where artillery cases littered the empty street, fighters crouched under a berm of sand.
Mr. Weaver was crouched over a different computer with the campaign's pollster Ben Tulchin, staring at early returns.
For most of that time I was crouched, covering my exit and applying suppressive fire when I could.
After Grapes was in position, the second Marine crouched over him, pointing his rifle in the opposite direction.
I dropped to the ground to avoid being shot, then crawled and crouched to get to the gate.
A Time magazine piece recalled the moment: As he crouched to photograph her, a vulture landed in view.
He crouched for a while behind a low barrier, as if he did not want to be seen.
Footage of the spacecraft's interior shows Fedor crouched in place, clutching a Russian flag in its right hand.
Aquaria crouched and held her pretty nose behind Ms. Kardashian-West's most infamous asset, and aced the match.
In the spirit of preservation, the buildings of Boat Quay have remained low, crouched close to the ground.
After the surrendering the blast, Chapman crouched near the mound, his back to home plate, and breathed heavily.
A bystander in a median crouched, then scurried away as officers moved in all around, the video shows.
Judge Alvarez stepped down from the bench, walked to the witness stand and crouched down next to her.
Crouched beside that trashcan, watching Whittington walk across the street for the cameras is a surreal lesson in differences.
He crouched down on all fours and received a gentle pet down the back, his bushy tail surprisingly alive.
So you end up suspended from the ceiling or crouched on the floor—anything to stay out of shot.
For two hours, Moore crouched with the officer between a car, heeding his instructions to stay small and protected.
Raphael Warnock crouched forward in a back pew here at Ebenezer Baptist Church and wondered what could have been.
Even when he's still, he often looks crouched, ready, a coiled ball of violent energy waiting to be unleashed.
It was an unwelcome flashback for Voit, who crouched near the mound with Arizona infielders as Ray was treated.
Crouched on his haunches, his face hidden in his hands, he tried to hold back tears and stop trembling.
Link's crouched speed is far too slow, and the small handful of moments that call for stealth are frustrating.
She crouched, pulling the child to her, and whispered that the child mustn't ever do it again. Never. Never.
When I get there, he's crouched down next to a 1965 El Camino the color of a ripe strawberry.
Slater appears in a closeup, crouched inside a shining tube, looking thoughtfully up at the pitching lip, now semitransparent.
Last fall, the singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco crouched backstage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, in Colorado, chain-smoking Marlboro Reds.
The defining feature of MB Stadium, that fat steel tarantula crouched over downtown Atlanta, is its fancy retractable roof.
"They're throwing grenade after grenade," he said, his face bloodied as he crouched behind an oven with his rifle.
NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES, France — The women were crouched on the sidewalk early Monday morning, their eyes narrowed in concentration.
WALLACE, Idaho — Late in October, the playwright Samuel D. Hunter crouched in a defunct silver mine in Northern Idaho.
On the outskirts of the city, men shoveled dirt and she crouched for hours to pick potatoes and onions.
I ended up crouched down next to an amazing guy who grabbed my hand and tried to calm me down.
Archaeologists also found the crouched skeleton of a dog who was likely killed in the blaze some 1,800 years ago.
"Officer McLoughlin with Kybo at today's doggy diving event," read the tweet showing a beaming McLoughlin crouched next to Kybo.
Serkis eagerly hopped into a crouched position on The Late Show as he dove into the character's headspace and physicality.
He crouched down, stifled his laughs, listened for the slight crunches of Roomba's great feet compressing the ice and soil.
Nommesen drives for Lyft and runs the Drinking About podcast when he's not crouched over a computer banging out code.
But there they were in the second-floor bathroom of the Holey Artisan Bakery, crouched in fear, unable to breathe.
Staff crouched and then fled along with customers, among them parents carrying babies or leading young children by the hand.
And, let's face it, we've all crouched around at least one friend's phone and marvelled at the beauty of swiping.
CiCi Bellis crouched to her knees and put her hand to her chest with a glazed look of utter disbelief.
Howard crouched low and jerked her shoulders from side to side, making a little bup sound whenever she changed direction.
The lack of rear doors, the crouched entry to the invariable cramped back seat, it says something about the owners.
Dodo likes me; he rubs so hard against me that I fall from my crouched position and onto my ass.
He said another photo showed a former researcher, in a bikini top and cutoff shorts, crouched down releasing a turtle.
Before tossing his back, Mr. Beckham crouched and peered over his shoulder to make sure no one was taking pictures.
We went looking for the owl every morning before school, when the fog crouched low above the narrow creek bed.
As he sat in a Hyrulian dungeon, awaiting today's misery, Zelda appeared before 9S and crouched to meet his gaze.
Volunteers crouched on the floor by the stage to prevent the puppies and kittens from falling over or wandering off.
The neighborhood was soon crawling with authorities from Jersey City, New York City and the F.B.I. Snipers crouched on rooftops.
In a brief reenactment of the Nevada Democratic debate, Trump crouched behind the podium in mockery of Michael Bloomberg's height.
The two women were buried face-down and crouched on their knees, and the man was buried on his back.
A pool of melting ice had formed around a boulder, and a porter crouched and filled his bucket for cooking.
Like a tiny commando, he crouched, searched his field of vision, then gave Jacob a quick beckoning gesture to follow.
She listened so attentively to us and crouched down engaging with Mia which was very sweet and probably not very comfortable.
At one point, Harry crouched down to talk to a few students and encouraged them to find other games to play.
As Holloway often fights from a longer, crouched stance his four inches of height on Aldo might not make much difference.
At well over 6 feet tall, the physically imposing sergeant crouched as small as he could get behind his right taillight.
Some 20 seconds later, Namir can be seen crouched down, peering around a street corner with his long lens camera raised.
For three harrowing hours, as the gunman took hostages, people crouched in a dressing room or in the air conditioning vents.
For three harrowing hours, as the gunman took hostages, they crouched in a dressing room or in the air conditioning vents.
"Picking Flowers" (2009) includes something rare in his oeuvre: a figure, in this case a woman crouched before a monolithic structure.
Smaller birds scurry in more of a crouched position, and bigger birds' legs stretch out to create a more upright pose.
The couple crouched down to play with the little ones, who showed off various toys and games to their royal visitors.
Barrett crouched next to the man and started an I.V. A minute later, the man sat up, looking bewildered and resentful.
Nor is there a Phil Plantier, who crouched as a terrified Little Leaguer might when facing a fastball up and in.
Then they crouched for a team picture, turning their bodies so the crowd behind them was in the shot as well.
As Nabih listened to his sister giggle, he crouched on the bed, drawing a picture of a house on a napkin.
Dust covered the white turban of the mullah who crouched over Mr. Hassan's headstone, reading from a little book of prayer.
I'm crouched underneath a monitor displaying a live runway feed when a security guard asks me if I'm a house photographer.
Carol, naked, crouched over the bodies and waved a knife at her husband and mother before stabbing herself in the chest.
It had cowered in front of an intricate, meaningless lattice of pounded plastic, twitching when she crouched down to document it.
Titian paints Mary crouched to the right of the composition, her eyes cast down and her hand clasped over her breast.
His smarts were undoubtedly fueled by kombucha or some green juice swill, I thought defensively, as I crouched in my cubicle.
They crouched beside two-foot hurdles and, when a coach told them, jumped over them and landed in a crouch again.
She is permanently, strategically crouched down to minimize her strike zone, and her walks turn into stealing every base humanly possible.
When he finally led Rachel to the spot, little did she know that Merkel was crouched in the bushes, totally hidden.
Once, in the yard, she crouched down, schnockered, waiting to leap out at Paul, Sr. And, leaping out, found him pantsless.
Alvarado crouched beside a small clay pot with a bamboo pipe poking from its side which emptied into a clay jug.
Michele Hamby found her daughter Breana unconscious in her bedroom, crouched between the bed and dresser, her alarm clock ringing incessantly.
Tense rabbits look like they're about to leap from their crouched poses, while painstakingly scaled fish ride rippling waves of wood.
They crouched, combed their fingers through rubble in the car's floorboards, got on their hands and knees to check for bone fragments.
As for spending all that time sitting still, the same advice applies as for staying crouched at a desk for too long.
Jay Sanders was crouched behind the couch, and he ripped off a piece of cloth from it and handed it to me.
A report says they crouched behind their cars as a rear window was shot out and rounds hit the ground around them.
According to archaeologist Paula Ware of MAP Archaeological Practice, the man had been carefully placed into the grave in a crouched position.
After a moment we realize there's someone in camouflage gear crouched next to a tree in the middle ground of the image.
Above my enemies, I stood crouched, pulled back just enough so that the edge of the roof obscured me from their vision.
I crouched my body slightly, elbows in tight, head wagging from side to side as I shifted my weight between my feet.
The stench of blood and smoke burned my nose while a dozen of us crouched in a dark corner of the bathroom.
Rodgers attempted to get on his feet following a sack but crouched to the turf, grasping the back of his left leg.
The signature move is Ms. Whelan's rising on her toes and falling back, one razor-sharp line, onto Mr. Brooks's crouched body.
Back at the car, we crouched by the open trunk as Waters removed the memory card and inserted it into a laptop.
The work requires women to sit on the floor, crouched over shoes for long hours, repeatedly pulling a needle through tough leather.
He pulled out a picture of the bull and crouched to examine the sculpture, like a barber lining up a buzz cut.
I was already crouched down, but I did have my blanket, shoved it down on my chest and dropped where I was.
If they were seated on the train or in wheelchairs or on the ground, we crouched down, instead of towering over them.
Crouched in the dugout, Mr. Williams, who played professionally, remembers believing he had to survive so he could witness his granddaughter's birth.
Once we found her crouched on the floor of our pantry eating Ritz crackers, and my mother had to shoo her away.
To mark her 73rd birthday last October, she posted a nude photo of herself on Instagram, crouched in a field of wildflowers.
An old woman in a faded pata pata dress, crouched and sweeping with a handle-less broom, uprights herself as we pass.
Crouched in my booth, I'll practice my slurp, and when hot droplets of soup fly everywhere, nobody will get spattered but me.
How long did Cronin sit crouched over his desk creating this splendid maze of architectural details, crooked antiques, knickknacks and other collectibles?
Magool repeated an ugly slur for the Darod, our family's clan, while a sweaty Maryan crouched inside the kitchen, holding her breath.
As the rounds progressed, Lomachenko chopped downward with left hands and followed up with right hooks and uppercuts on the crouched Rigondeaux.
Local television broadcast images of soldiers and police crouched in doorways and on rooftops as gunshots echoed in the center of the town.
Soon firefighters were crouched around him trying to push air in as the sheriff, who had arrived in his patrol boat, stood nearby.
The occasional group of rebel fighters float by, crouched into floating hollow logs, their long legs around their ears, AK-47s in hand.
"Bill and Ted" screenwriter Ed Solomon captured the scene: Reeves, crouched in the sweltering Louisiana sun, signed "Stacey, you're breathtaking!" in exquisite penmanship.
Mood: thinking thoughts Music: Polyphonic Ringtone Medley III Jennifer and I head home, crouched on the escalators so the adults can't see us.
Jokingly, he crouched down, knees fully bent, and with his head and back straight, he scooted under the table to get the ball.
You see her crouched on the wooden floor of her mother's bedroom, laughing from her belly as they play a game of Jacks.
Local television broadcast images of soldiers and police crouched in doorways and on rooftops as gunshots echoed in the centre of the town.
Still not sure what to do, some concertgoers crouched while others made their way to the edge of the festival along the Strip.
The father crouched down in front of the girl and said gently, I suppose Mamma is the only one allowed to touch you .
He crouched by the headstone of what was supposed to be his own grave, offering a prayer for the unknown man buried there.
"Once we were all seated my sister and I snuck over to business and crouched next to him and said hi," Asya said.
My crouched, spastic gate puts too much pressure on my joints and so the cartilage in my knees and ankles is wearing away.
But Mr. Pérez spent many afternoons and evenings this month crouched over a phone screen, sending encrypted messages to The New York Times.
They gathered around her, arms slung over each other's shoulders, and crouched down low, craning their necks toward their manager, eager to hear.
"Hey, they're shooting right at us, guys," one officer said as he and his colleagues crouched behind a wall with their weapons drawn.
"Hey, they're shooting right at us, guys!" one officer said as he and his colleagues crouched behind a wall with their weapons drawn.
Wearing helmets, flak vests and battle fatigues, they crouched on their knees and aimed military-style rifles at various points in the distance.
It's impossible to look away from the scene -- the guy stood in front of the lion, then crouched down in front of it.
Jessica Goldklang, a party planner, crouched nearby and recorded the spectacle on her phone, while icy spray grazed some carefully potted citrus trees.
The elder Gauff crouched in front of his daughter and launched into a full-blown pep talk while he was mic&aposd up.
Three policemen crouched behind a low concrete wall with several small holes that had been made with a pry bar and a mallet.
The children wore no shoes, only simple cotton shrouds, and were found curled on their sides, lying flat or crouched on their backs.
His "Western Knight" is a riveted-together mannequin or puppet, crouched atop his equally faceted horse, which doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Carlos Kleiber often resembled a wizard when he waved his baton, while Herbert von Karajan looked like he was crouched over in agony.
Despite how crowded the shop would get, selling shoes is actually really intimate; you are literally crouched in front of someone, touching their feet.
As she crouched on the floor of the shower, the warm water falling on her head, she started crying, unable to keep herself up.
He's a universally accepted superhero, and I hope to see a bunch of people crouched in low-hanging tree branches after too much tequila.
The Briton crouched down next to the car after it waswheeled off the track, resting his helmeted head on the front in apparent shock.
I crouched over and hacked away, imagining that I wasn't in my boss's yard, but a wayward astronaut lost in a dense, tropical jungle.
Upon arrival to the scene, officers found Vandewege on the front walkway "crouched down with his face in his hands," according to the release.
Around this time, I can remember her crouched over a tape recorder in her bedroom, with a microphone in one hand, in absolute hysterics.
He summoned the 6-foot-5 bodyguard, and the three of them crouched in a corner of the packed Tavern until about 3 a.m.
Now, barefoot, he crouched at the edge of the new canvas, which measured seven by seven feet; its center was just within arm's reach.
On the 15th floor, one person crouched by Mr. Washington's side: Mr. Hubbard's sister, Cassandra Newbold, who had been fighting with Mr. Washington, too.
"I hate to see her go like this, go down like this," Mr. Goynes said in Ms. Kilty's living room, crouched beside the dog.
The wounded tried to crawl away or lie still, while others ran or crouched behind the dead, but the gunman kept pulling the trigger.
He was crouched in his wheelchair, and we feared he might suffer another seizure like the one that nearly took his life in July.
In the men's 203-meter speedskating event, he lined up, crouched as he readied for the start gun and then sprang into a sprint.
Workers crouched on rails beneath the cars, consulting manuals as they turned wrenches and sprayed lubricant on the parts they attached to the undercarriages.
Crouched on a curb across from Bowery Mission, Miquel Rosa, 59, said few people understood how frequently homeless people were assaulted on the streets.
Police fired tear gas, which did little to disperse the well-prepared protesters, who crouched behind barriers and tossed the canisters back at police.
This is how a lifelong vegetarian ends up crouched on a garbage bag covered in raw meat on the floor of her own bedroom.
It reaches back to images from the 19th century and before, and it stretches forward to the crouched and hooded prisoners of Guantánamo Bay.
He ran over to a nearby trampoline, pulled up his hoodie, crouched down and launched himself first upward and then backward into a flip.
Op-Ed Contributor It seems as if there's always some kind of feline holiday crouched around the corner, wriggling its bottom, ready to pounce.
Falkowski moved the students — already crouched in a corner behind the locked door and out of view from the hallway — toward a classroom storage closet.
Johnson snapped a photo of the man's back as he crouched over the hundreds of polish options, then shared the photo on her Facebook page.
Not long after Kardashian unveiled sexy photos from her shoot with Odda Magazine where she posed in Fendi crouched in front of the two bins.
The cemetery is full of women crouched in mourning aside the colourful shrines of the town's 23 "martyrs", piled high with flowers, flags and memorabilia.
I paced around the store for ten minutes before I crouched down in front of the chocolate bars and carefully looked both ways multiple times.
Hopkins says that making electronic music is more physically demanding than it looks—all those years spent crouched over his laptop had damaged his back.
The lobby will have 10,000 square feet of textbooks and a 20-foot sculpture by Hebru Brantley of a flyboy crouched in an inquisitive pose.
As the officers started shooting, Latasha crouched down into the small legroom space in the back seat, screaming at Frisco and Michael to do something.
After Renaldo Maurice crouched and collapsed to the floor, Jeroboam Bozeman collected his body and propped him up so that they sat back to back.
In one room, the murals depict scenes from military life: soldiers crouched in combat, donning gas masks, and cleaning weapons and darning socks during downtime.
Daniel Murphy, Javier Baez, Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant crouched in their stances and waved their bats, staring down the Phillies' starting pitcher, Aaron Nola.
To correct the habit, Jackson would slowly walk the length of the field crouched in a wider base, doing push-ups if his form reverted.
To the right are actions like Shoot and Takedown, and on the bottom there's information including ammunition, health, focus, and stance (either standing or crouched).
She called up to the sky and the heavens, and crouched down on the floor, thanking the earth for carrying his body for 78 years.
But on Wednesday, Kvitova, the No. 11 seed, was crouched over, sweat pouring from her forehead as she gasped for air in the third set.
As young couples bought gifts and clicked photos, wounded victims of violence went in and out of the hospital, their families crouched behind its walls.
The smaller photographs contain some figurative semblance of the original snapshots; a woman gazing into an unknown abyss, an anonymous individual crouched on their stomach.
"We're wounded ... they're killing us!" said Perez in one video, seemingly wearing a bulletproof vest as he crouched in what appeared to be a small house.
"She ain't got no legs," McKinnon as Sessions said showing the photo of Conway sitting in a crouched position on a couch in the Oval Office.
Or will my ass just be touching the floor, leaving me in an unflattering, crouched position that makes me feel like I'm peeing in the woods?
The euro zone's momentum has been losing pace, according to Citigroup's economic surprise index for the currency bloc, which is crouched near a two-year low.
After being cut from inside the pale, plastic greenhouses crouched by the lakeside, the thorny stems are stripped of excess leaves and packaged to customers' specifications.
If I'm crouched in the bushes, whistle to bring over a guard, and don't time the kill just right, they will see me and and attack.
A mustachioed violinist, in quasi-Edwardian garb, crouched almost fetally under water, his bow rising above the surface, like a shark's fin, then falling below it.
There were buses so vacuum-packed with passengers that many riders were forced onto the exterior, clinging to open doorways and crouched on rooftop luggage racks.
"The neighbors also came to stay in here as their bunkers were in disrepair," Sadiq said, crouched in a claustrophobic reinforced concrete room under his home.
It offered a taste of the unknown: At any time I might find myself crouched in the brush, face to face with my own fragile existence.
Many of the terrified concertgoers followed their instincts and crouched or lay flat, not realizing that they remained exposed to a gunman lodged high above them.
Sock crouched to the ground in apparent relief after closing out a lopsided 21-26, 22-26 (24), 23-22 victory, and walked to the net.
The euro zone's momentum has been losing pace, according to Citigroup's economic surprise index for the currency bloc, which is crouched at a two-year low.
We moved to the wardrobe department, where bolts of sequins and tulle crouched on shelves near a tidy maze of suits, shimmering gowns and schoolgirl chic.
Police officers left their vehicles and crouched behind cars -- their own and others at the intersection -- as shields as they approached, video from the scene showed.
And while cycling is good, it's not really a strength- or stability- or mobility-building activity (and has you crouched in one position the whole time).
They include a number of meditating Buddhas of a more regular weight, renderings of female deities, and a schist figure of a mustachioed, crouched Winged Atlas.
When I came back to myself and remembered my child, I crouched by his stroller to try and explain what I could about what we were witnessing.
I crouched and checked the circle of cinnamon sticks and dried lavender I'd laid to deter the wicked beasts, and then knotted the hem of my skirt.
Illuminated by squares of light, they knocked on invisible walls and later on the ground at Ms. Rodríguez's feet, crouched in a semicircle around her svelte figure.
He enlists his own son, a pleasant teenaged boy with a cranky motorbike who might otherwise stay crouched over the porn he has recorded on his phone.
Neighbors find her curled tight in their pigpens, crouched like an animal in ditches along the roads, hidden in the marsh grass, knee deep in stinking mud.
The art features a bearded and muscled man crouched atop an animal skull with horns, naked except for a loincloth that conceals a knife behind his back.
Our body politic seems to suffer from a similar ailment: crouched defensively against threats real and imagined, yet unfocused by the endless distractions of the news cycle.
I've crouched in a primitive outdoor kitchen, taking instruction from a tiny Maya woman, trying to teach me how to form tortillas by hand (it's not easy).
Crouched in our High-Speed Assault Craft, or HSAC , we'd closed in on the massive freighter's starboard quarter, just aft of the island, for a mock raid.
Yes, it's a great way to hurt a crouched opponent and outright starch a ducking opponent, but it is also an excellent way to lift his head.
When we crouched along a tree line to survey the stretch of field before us, I couldn't shake the feeling of vulnerability as I watched for movement.
To make matters worse for Kira, the only two seats free are in the first row—so we creep, half-crouched and feeling rather guilty, into place.
Last week, Pierre Bonner, of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, was crouched in the back of a 20-foot box truck that he had paid to stuff with things.
The cover, though — I liked to hold the thick book in my hand — showed a side view of a rabbit in the foreground, crouched within golden grass.
Varda, who died in March aged 90, features on Cannes' official posting, crouched on the back of a crew member as she tried to grab a shot.
He has also devised the music, both earthy and ethereal, that is performed by two musicians, crouched in corners in sepulchral lighting (beautifully rendered by Matt Frey).
When the Houthis came to arrest his father in Amran, north of Sanaa, he crouched on their house's rooftop firing a machine gun to scare them away.
To his creators, the anonymity of the figure crouched in an orange life vest, his arms wrapped tightly around his knees, reflects the universality of his plight.
SAN ANTONIO — In one truck, the migrants crouched in the dark in a three-foot crevice between the trailer's ceiling and the top of medical-supply boxes.
We crouched down and passed through it into an office, where we sat for tea on the couch, next to a giant pair of papier-mâché. breasts.
In pursuit of their passion, hardcore collectors like Sheffer operate surreptitiously in the cover of night, crouched in front of laptops and mobile devices — not unlike computer hackers.
I crouched down near the heater, holding my phone at arm's length so I could follow the instructions, as if I were peeking over an expert's shoulder. Success!
Other officers said they crouched behind patrol vehicles, unable to determine where gunfire was coming from while a rear window shattered and bullets hit the ground around them.
I am crouched in a chair next to Larry Merchant, the former HBO Boxing analyst who's slated to the call the event for the international and online feeds.
The soon-to-be father crouched down to chat with the mother-daughter duo — and it wasn't long before the infant flashed a big smile at the royal.
We've neatly laid out toilet paper, we've crouched until our thighs were sore, and we've decided to just cross our legs and hold out for another 30 minutes.
Some people had to hide for hours, crouched in bathrooms or in hidden corners inside the club, sending frantic text messages to the outside world begging for help.
Chukwudi Iwuji, the production's Olivier Award-winning star, walked over, crouched in front of the woman and spoke Hamlet's lines right to her, drawing her gaze back up.
But after launching into his double front somersault with half twist dismount, he crouched down on his landing before his feet simply gave away and he fell backwards.
At an army base in Rathedaung, a few miles from where the Arakan Army launched an attack this year, soldiers crouched behind fences of barbed wire and branches.
Your sister will tell you that she was crouched by her desk, choking back tears while whispering to the kids that they were doing such a good job.
At nightfall, two men headed out of the city carrying a basket of meat-scraps, then crouched in a clearing and called out into a patch of scrubland.
In 228, in a poem titled "Exposure," Wilfred Owen evoked the delusional nightmares of soldiers crouched in trenches, awaiting combat as a wintry wind howled over the battlefield.
The opening day battery will most likely consist of 25-year-old Luis Severino, the staff ace, on the mound and Gary Sanchez, 20233, crouched behind the plate.
Mr. Gurley's girlfriend, Melissa Butler, crouched over his body, trying to revive him, but neither Officer Liang nor his partner performed CPR, as is required under Police Department rules.
I might look like I'm camping, crouched in the corner with my shotgun pointed at the door, but this isn't about taking advantage of unsuspecting prey—it's about survival.
The soon-to-be father, 34, crouched down to chat with the mother-daughter duo – and it wasn't long before the infant flashed a big smile at the royal.
It's a veiled, crouched, scarcely human figure who turns out to be the doom-saying, grief-maddened, prophetic Queen Margaret (played by that fine, Tony-winning actress Marie Mullen).
I spotted Bill Cunningham, crouched low at the corner as I made my way down the block in an olive green gabardine suit with a turned-up fur collar.
After cops pointed the taser at him, Efford crouched to the ground in a "fetal-like position" and began to "yell and scream belligerently," according to the police report.
The vehicle, called the Scorpion and designed by Russian tech company Hoversurf, relies on four propellers to stay airborne, with the rider crouched precariously close to the exposed blades.
I became a subject of ridicule when my partner was watching TV and I crouched in the middle of the living room while playing the dead space pilot game.
WANTO used his umbrella to cover his movements as he finished a double throw-up on a shutter at a busy intersection and crouched on corners to catch tags.
" The movie cuts for just a few seconds to an indelible image: Katie, crouched in the corner of her closet, her face completely frozen like Edvard Munch's "The Scream.
The store's security camera shows that during that time, Salamoni had straddled Sterling, and Lake had crouched over him and pulled out a gun, pointing at the man's head.
WASHINGTON — President Trump crouched underneath his microphone on Saturday, mimicking the height of Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City who is running for president.
I crouched by the water's edge and listened to the quiet, which was broken only by the gentle lapping of water on sand, as soothing as any sound machine.
During one solo, the dancer Bostjan Antoncic crouched in place multiple times, then spun like a dervish, against breathy long notes and pizzicato flashes from the violinist Igor Semenoff.
JG: I think the Obama administration they held the ball and crouched on this one, and I think that people don't feel that this is a remotely completed conversation.
"She ain't got no legs," McKinnon as Sessions said showing a photo of Conway sitting in a crouched position on a couch in the Oval Office, which has gone viral.
I tried to weave around them carefully, holding my breath when I took crouched steps, but wasn't looking at my feet and I tripped, falling to the moss-covered ground.
Etta crouched into proper form, per her triweekly training with Eric Cafferty, her coach, and confidently exhaled as she lifted a chalk-dusted barbell bearing 21 pounds off the floor.
On day three of his tour of Nepal, Prince Harry crouched down to imitate a big cat as he was shown how conservationists track the animal in a country park.
Harry crouched down and greeted the dog as former airman Romero, from nearby Celebration, Florida, explained how Jasmine can smell the pheromones that are signs an attack is coming on.
"If there was more water then it would be okay, but we do not get enough so our crops are just drying up," she said, crouched above the yellowing plants.
The couple, who is expecting their first child together this spring, crouched down to play with the little ones, who showed off various toys and games to their royal visitors.
As Moir glided sideways in a crouched spread-eagle position, Virtue, clad in a shimmering purple and black catsuit, climbed on to his thighs before arching backwards with outstretched arms.
Plagued by loneliness after spending late nights at the office crouched over a tub of take-out Yaki Soba, staying at work until the rims of her eyes are pink.
His coach was at his side for one shot, stood behind him on the next, and then crouched to block the glare of the hot sun to study the video.
" When Kerrigan crouched sobbing on the floor near the training rink, right after the attack (Newsweek described it as "the sound of one dream breaking"), she famously cried out: "Why?
"He shot one young man, and then I crouched down to the floor and then he shot the girl next to me and she fell down," one freshman told MyNorthWest.
Back in the classroom, Mona Shamsher, a 16-year-old student, showed me her favorite move as she crouched into a sumo-squat, a two-fisted punch to the gut.
KOH KHANUN, Thailand — Crouched on the ground in a dimly lit factory, the women picked through the discarded innards of the modern world: batteries, circuit boards and bundles of wires.
There's Dizzee, crouched down in the corner again, the set behind him glowing yellow, a perfect simulation of the album cover that itself was simulated in the night's promo posters.
So I spend a lot of time in really awkward positions crouched under or behind fashion models, trying to keep my hands in shot, but the rest of my body out.
After four-and-a-half hours of being crouched in a bathroom and thinking we were going to die, it finally slowed down enough that we could open the bathroom door.
A 1991 survey of 528 British women found that 85 percent of them crouched over public toilets, 12 percent used toilet paper, and only 2 percent sat directly on the seat.
A concierge in the customer's building happened to look at the security monitors when the driver crouched down, opened the pizza box, and picked a couple of toppings off the pie.
Omega, on his knees, crouched over one of the greatest five or six champions in modern history, regardless of where and when, checking on him in a show of babyface magnanimity.
The reporter's hand then appeared to brush the intern's arm during the incident and the woman then crouched down out of the view of the camera and moved away from Acosta.
Dong-ho crouched in the shadow of a building, watching his friend's feet twitch as rescue attempts led to the murder of others, and, finally, as soldiers dragged off the dead.
Kollam, India (CNN)As devastating floods hit India's southern state of Kerala, thousands scrambled up to the higher floors in their buildings and crouched together on balconies, waiting desperately for help.
"Note also do not fail to note," the poem urges, "In that dark corner and behind that cask / Crouched husbands, bridegrooms, brothers, peering from the cracks" watching their women being raped.
From where they crouched, the men, women and children could see American soil only yards away, on the other side of the tall border fence separating Mexico from the United States.
Sweating bullets, I crouched down next to my dad's butcher shed and furtively pulled out my little baggie and the "one-hitter" that Steve had thrown in to sweeten the deal.
Armed only with homemade mortars, their features hidden behind scarves and ski masks, the fighters of Masaya crouched behind the barricades they built to protect the streets of their rebellious city.
CreditCreditAlex Goodlett for The New York Times GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Round and round the short-track speedskaters go, crouched low on the ice as they carve counterclockwise ovals, over and over.
Adams, who was wearing black pants, a black beaded sweater and black high heels, noticed that a chair was a smidgen askew, she crouched down and began to push it herself.
Mr. Kilic, who was crouched behind a cocktail table about 12 feet away, said the gunman had ordered everyone else out and refused a security guard's request to drop his weapon.
Wild-haired and hollow-eyed, slightly crouched in a conspiratorial stance, she knows what the world is made of: haves and have-nots, those wot got theirs and those wot haven't.
He then joined some schoolchildren in planting mahogany trees and crouched down with one young boy to help him with the sapling – and they marked their success with a high-five.
Yet, while the tapering small-waisted form of the light brown "Samurai 2896" suggests an armored, crouched combatant, it also evokes the triangular bodice and full overskirt of an Elizabethan gown.
In Guilin, the dish is often eaten at bare-bones shops while you are half-crouched on tiny stools, the noodles heaped in metal bowls with nothing but meat and sauce.
In 2012, he remarked to the actress Anne Hathaway that viewers had "seen a lot of you lately" after a photographer had crouched down to take a picture up her skirt.
Landing in Canada on Saturday with his royal parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for a Royal Tour, the young prince was non-plussed when Trudeau crouched down to greet him.
I remember being unnerved by the thundering roar of 2000 low-flying fighter jets screaming over my head, as I crouched within my sandy foxhole in the cold, dark Saudi Arabian desert.
Crouched next to a hole in the ice, Sakamoto lowers a mic into the water to capture the trickling sound of melting ice, which he'll later edit into one of his tracks.
In the artwork, you can make out a figure (we presume it to be Sabrina) crouched in the woods, surrounded by ominous trees and the light of the fire reflecting the shadows.
He was hilariously scolded by grandmother Queen Elizabeth when he crouched down to talk to George while the royal family appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony during Trooping the Colour in June.
Vernon is crouched over his synthesiser, with his now customary baseball cap and relaxed clothing befitting the serenity of our surroundings; the others are placed behind saxophones, more synthesizers, drums and guitars.
Long hours crouched over a microscope, combined with Cajal's self-described "irresistible mania for scribbling," resulted in hundreds of detailed sketches of neurons, neuroglia, and all the other goop in our skulls.
Here, her choreography loses none of its exacting focus of position, whether dancers are crouched in the corner like debris or moving through angular poses that transform bodies, however briefly, into sculptures.
From the outset, The Evil Within 2 looks like the same game: You're spending a lot of time in a crouched position, waiting to stab enemies in the head with your knife.
Justin Phillips, who spent years living on the street and is now the senior outreach officer for the Institute for Human Services, a nonprofit agency which helps the homeless, crouched beside him.
Other protesters and first aid workers attempted to stop some who tried to trample the man, while pro-democracy lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki crouched beside him and tried to calm the attackers.
After being brought on stage, McFadden said the senator shook his hand and then crouched down and began talking to his daughter, whose name he preferred not to release for her privacy.
A young girl in a yellow hooded sweatshirt, her glasses pushed down on her nose, crouched beside the candles, warming her hands as a tear hung at the edge of her eye.
It's a balmy Thursday evening in Hollywood, and with the sun having finally set, it's begun to get dark, save the crackling fire pit that Debbie Michail is crouched in front of.
"We're going for a better future for our son, in a place that's safe," said Samuel García, 30, a Honduran who was crouched alongside his wife and their 5-year-old son.
CreditCreditPete Kiehart for The New York Times SHUKHUTI, Georgia — Luka Torotadze, 216, was crouched beside his great-uncle Bitchiko's grave, wiping dust off a plump, leather ball that rested beneath the headstone.
Ms. Mahomet crouched to explain, as she had many times before, how during winter, as it was now, a fire would have been lit inside for the women about to give birth.
Ms. Mahomet crouched to explain, as she had many times before, how during winter, as it was now, a fire would have been lit inside for the women about to give birth.
The blonde, completely naked and gazing to her right, is crouched over the dog in a soft-core cheesecake pose with heavy-lidded eyes, parted ruby lips, exposed lustrous teeth, and wavy locks.
Pictures from the protest group showed Clement crouched in a police van and two others, one with a video camera and the other with a camera, being guided by police towards the van.
"Aaaand then ur daughter pees on the floor of the airplane bathroom," Panettiere wrote on Twitter, sharing a photo of her and her daughter Kaya Evdokia crouched down in the on-flight stall.
No sooner have you disposed of these and gone back to your life than you will find one perched on the corner of your computer screen or crouched atop a bar of soap.
Dipping low with jabs to the body—which most fighters don't even bother defending until they start to ache—Edgar would occasionally pop out a jab to the head from his crouched position.
After a badly netted volley in the sixth game of the third set put him down by 2-4, Zverev crouched his long legs low in resignation and stared toward his support team.
In a video that Glover shared with FOX17 Nashville and posted on Facebook, someone is crouched down in the water cleaning a rack, followed by a second person who brings along plastic containers.
Frank Joseph, who played basketball with Samuel at the Y.M.C.A. gym just steps down the street, crouched in front of a sidewalk memorial of candles and a note-laden poster of his friend.
Groups of figures testify to this event, including a cluster of nine crouched women who recede slightly into the background, a set of haloed deities, and a watchful feline perched on a nearby stool.
Some people were crouched close to the ground, reading the florid prose of sympathy, while others trailed their hands over the tops of the bouquets, or the stuffed toys that had been left there.
It was still two hours until doors, but a small crowd of mostly young femmes in their Otep shirts crouched near the entrance to the venue despite the punishing heat and lack of shade.
Both the prince and his pregnant bride crouched down so they could speak to Findlay Blue, 4, and Dasha Gallagher, 6, who adorably held each other's hand during their chat with the royal couple.
This means it can take on a number of different postures, including an upright wheeled position (best for for quick movement) and a crouched "spider" mode, which gives it more stability when operating tools.
She glimpsed a plump girl in shorts, fiercely chewing, and a shirtless man with a fat back, crouched at the grill, his body radiant with generosity as he handed somebody a plate of meat.
Two men were hoisted over fast-flowing water by a crane then lowered to the level of the ice, where one of them crouched down to hack through the buoy's mooring with a knife.
The brassy opening beats began as Beyoncé crouched on the roof of a police car, wearing a red-and-white blouse and a matching skirt: evocative of the rural South but made by Gucci.
Crouched behind a stand of rocks last spring, Brendan Burns, a 201543-year-old with a growing reputation as sheep hunter and guide, peered over the edge, careful not to be seen or heard.
But McClinton, slick and confident, soon crouched down and spoke to voters before the forum started, including Villaseñor, telling them specifically that he was up against a conservative Republican and needed these Democrats' help.
In "Jerusalem, 1967" (translated in this volume by Stephen Mitchell), there is a verse in which Amichai begins by describing the city as "short and crouched among its hills," unlike, say, tall New York.
We crouched down through a dark opening, followed a short slope and emerged into a large, well-lit chamber; a single banyan had snaked its way up and through a skylight opening high above.
In 2012, when Anne Hathaway was on a press tour for Les Misérables, a photographer crouched down as she got out of a car and took a photo of the view up her skirt.
The closet (glass or otherwise) remains a social fixture when some of our most powerful cultural and political figures remain crouched inside of it, oftentimes using the language of "privacy" to defend their place there.
Every so often, a ranger crouched and threw a handful of dust into the wind — that's how they test that the wind isn't blowing their scent toward rhinos, which have a powerful sense of smell.
Though her look is the same, give or take a tank top and some makeup, the sinuous figure on stage commands a swagger entirely absent from the giddy, bashful one crouched before me hours earlier.
Before we know anything else about her, we're told that "Jane" is beautiful — even when she is tired, or slightly beyond her model-esque prime, or crouched in a science lab, or wearing blue jeans.
KATLEHONG, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Smoke swirled around Badanile Maci as she crouched on all fours, clapping and chanting with half a dozen other sangomas - South African traditional healers - to greet their ancestors' spirits.
He stunned Bradley with a left-handed counter, and then, as Bradley crouched, Pacquiao met him low, reached back with his left hand as if winding up for a fastball, and unleashed a peppery hook.
He was reading off names from people in the chat room who wanted to be included in the protest — a woman next to him was crouched on the sidewalk, writing each name down in chalk.
Miles from any village, it has three informal teachers and almost 100 students, who crouched on the floor with a small chalkboard in front of them and hundreds of white, big horned cows behind them.
Instead of running in pursuit of the others, D'Agostino crouched down and put her hand on the New Zealander's shoulder, then under her arms to help her up, and softly urged her not to quit.
"In the moment I was crouched in the hallway, sobbing into my pencil skirt, I clutched my congressional badge and asked myself if this is the kind of work I want to do," Vital wrote.
In the middle of February, the Warriors might be playing the Miami Heat, but Rubin will be crouched over his laptop cutting film of a game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Dallas Mavericks.
It's odd, but when I recall memories of the next few minutes, they have the quality of a time-lapse video, where moments speed by quickly and feel slightly disconnected: I'm crouched below my seat.
Inspired by the Charles Baudelaire poem "Beauty," and seemingly the prototype for the sculpture, the roughly 70-centimeter, or 28-inch, plaster depicts a standing male nude lifting a crouched female lover in his arms.
Liam S. squatted to peer up her skirt, and when she crouched to stop him it was Jyoti who pulled the pins from her hair, as if the button might be hidden in its roots.
The Tick-Tock Man is crouched by a dumpster in an alley for reasons made apparent when you see the movie, and a sinister grin spreads across his face as Wick realizes who he is.
" The first time we see Beyonce, she's crouched in front of a red curtain, singing the pointed opening lines of album opener "Pray You Catch Me": "You can taste the dishonesty/ It's all over your breath.
A few days back, Nintendo published high-res images of some very cool amiibo being released alongside Samus Returns next month—here and here—one with Samus in a crouched position, another portraying an escaping metroid.
When his remains were kept at the Grand Palace awaiting a royal cremation, 11 elephants decorated to look like white elephants crouched down before the palace walls in a symbolic gesture to honor the "people's king".
My grandfather crouched down beside me, put an arm around my shoulder and pointed out the silver-haired dandy in a pinstriped double-breasted suit, sitting lonely as a mountain in a corner of the room.
In "The World Has Many Butterflies," that type of young woman — the kind who cracks wise from a crouched position — is now a suburban Houston housewife who has fallen into a world of aspirational child rearing.
While the master of Peterhouse crouched on the floor, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist drove out past the besiegers, dropping his furtive passenger near the entrance to the deer park, the back way into the college.
"It's beautiful," Liu Jingwen of Guangdong Province said as one of her travel companions crouched with his camera on the edge of a lawn and took a selfie in front of a small red brick bungalow.
He liked to drink water from the bathtub taps, but it happened now that after the effort of getting into the tub he forgot why he was there, and was content to stay crouched, doing nothing.
Zia Bardar crouched in an irrigation ditch as he dragged a long bamboo stick with a hook taped to the end across the road, looking for one of six IEDs he knew had been placed there.
It certainly won't be as easy as against a crouched fighter or one prone to ducking, but a few lead handed uppercuts thrown in between the left hooks and jabs might work out well for Dos Santos.
My vision didn't swim the way it sometimes does with inside-out headsets, but I felt as though the world was drifting with me, just a little bit, especially when I crouched to look at the ground.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police undersheriff Kevin McMahill explained, according to the Washington Post: As they moved toward the nightclub, an individual later identified as Bennett was seen crouched down behind a gaming machine as the officers approached.
As his ball disappeared, Garcia crouched, clenched his fists and let out a mighty scream of pure joy releasing years of frustration, his 74 major starts the most made by any professional golfer before a first win.
Too many of its users were featuring photos of themselves crouched next to big cats like tigers and lions, animals that, had a random Tinder user approached them under normal circumstances, would probably try to eat them.
Silence fell once more as the elderly artist crouched down and began to fill a 6-metre (20-foot) strip of paper with a zigzagging pencil line: what the hand drew, the feet smudged as he edged forward.
With tears in her eyes, the tennis champion got up to shake hands with her opponent before making her way over to the bench, where she crouched down to the floor again with her face in her hands.
"Will I know if I win?" asks a crouched, nude figure to an angelic character by her side, playing what looks to be an alternate version of chess where a single piece is moved across three-dimensional walls.
Even healthy chickens can require a surprising amount of maintenance, as anyone who has ever crouched in a coop in a minus-20 windchill massaging Vaseline into the comb of a squirming hen to prevent frostbite can attest.
He has been incarnated by the estimable likes of Michael Gambon, Corin Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Harold Pinter and John Hurt, who almost always appear in a state of advanced (and realistic) decrepitude, crouched darkly over a dusty desk.
When an opponent usually gets out of the way by bending at the waist or leaning backwards, the double jab forces him into his most crouched or craned position before the right hand has even left its holster.
PARIS — It was less than 48 hours before the Maison Margiela show, scheduled for early Wednesday, and the American artist Jessi Reaves was crouched in her studio in the 11th Arrondissement, putting finishing touches on her latest work.
None took aim at me — and as I read the stream, I felt more cowardly than I can ever remember, as if I were crouched in a foxhole while Ms. Richards took fire for the rest of us.
In Turkey, on a hilltop overlooking the Syrian border and the town of Tel Abyad, a lone Syrian man, Mehmet Huseyn, 45, crouched in the shade of a rusting water tank, scanning the horizon for signs of movement.
We made our way to the race site and crouched behind a parked minivan, slinking around like a couple of middle-aged Hardy Boys, then fixed our eyes on a dozen runners who had gathered at a trailhead.
The flashes show a long hallway lined with what look like robots, Taylor's face with dark eye make-up and wrapped in a black hood, and finally, a naked figure crouched on the floor of a creepy, dark warehouse.
In the same year we saw Mario turn into a T. rex and a taxi, it's still perhaps more unsettling to see him crouched behind cover, blasting away at enemies with the Mushroom Kingdom's version of a plasma gun.
A version of the video for the song (whose title translates, roughly, to "These Fucking Times") without sound is still on YouTube, and shows, beginning around the 18-second mark, a group of crouched figures wearing shiny survival blankets.
Children with the disorder usually show a variety of symptoms, including weakness in one arm or leg, a crouched gait, having muscles that are too stiff or floppy, and excessive drooling, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders.
Finally, once the chicks hatched, the chicks in the experimental group (including the one that didn't hear to the alarm calls because it was in a sound-proof box), vocalized less and crouched quicker in the face of danger.
Onstage at New York City's McKittrick Hotel last July for his first American performance as a solo artist, he assumes his trademark position, arms clasped behind his parka-covered torso, crouched in a perpetual stare-down with the audience.
"I watched as the government landed in helicopters in Tula Toli and distributed arms," said Omar Ali, as he crouched beneath a sheet of tarpaulin alongside his wife and twin baby girls in the makeshift refugee settlement of Bhalukhali.
Crouched at the front of the stage, one man washes another's supine body; behind them, eight others lie in what look like bunk beds, two towers of four, shifting between postures of rest and exertion (fetal positions, plank positions).
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers wryly noted the contradictions inherent in the anthem-respect debate when he posted a photograph on Instagram last week, showing photographers crouched at the feet of Rodgers and his teammates, aiming cameras at them.
Her works, including paper etchings that resembled hanging skin, jars full of mysterious fluids and sculptures of bloody organs and crouched, defecating women, became touchstones for a generation that had survived the horrors and humiliation of AIDS and Reagan.
A Latino guy in a blue mechanic's uniform was crouched in a corner of the cell, speaking tenderly through the bars to an underage prostitute who was seated on a folding chair, her slender wrist handcuffed to a bar.
Crouched in a sliver of shade, Aban surveys her neighbors — some have "tree houses" of their own, but others aren't so lucky, forced to set up their belongings on the cracked earth with no respite from the sweltering sun.
As Kayleigh talks about the techniques schoolchildren have been taught to live through a shooting -- including playing a game to see who can "stay quietest the longest" -- pictures of kids crouched under tables and hiding in bathrooms flash on the screen.
Hyundai executives at CES Monday talked about future autonomous cars, connected devices, "cars as a living space," and more, but everyone just wanted to see the model of the funky walking robot-car that was silently crouched on the stage.
Campbell took the deputy&aposs gun, carjacked  18-year-old Charles Dials and drove around with him for several hours before shooting him twice in the head as Dials crouched in the footwell of his own truck, according to court records.
"One of the early bits of video that I saw showed one octopus approaching another in a fairly dramatic way — dark and standing very tall, and the other one crouched down, turned pale and then fled," Scheel told Live Science.
And then round out the week out in the yard, on the deck or fire escape, up on the roof or just crouched in front of the broiler, and make spiedies with garlic bread and a big batch of grilled broccoli.
To take a toke from another tip of light I duck behind a rock, and there is Kaye, My once and future neighbor, crouched, staring At the sea, I sit beside her and take her hand, somewhere in Outer space.
The widely shared photo here showed her crouched meters away from Mexico's border with the United States, clinging to her young son Anthony Diaz as she looked up at an armed member of the newly formed Mexican military police force.
He put his finger to his lips to ask for quiet at the starting block, rubbed his closely shaved head, crouched down for the start, then grinded through a men's 235-meter race that was as routine as making the bed.
There are swarms of people at this hospital—patients sitting in the entrance hall, staff lining the corridor that faces onto the street, men crouched on top of holdalls on the floor, and mums trying to entertain their increasingly fractious children.
Inside a gaming parlor, where posters of Chinese gladiatrix occupied the chipping walls, off-duty construction workers crouched over a hulking console named China Dragon, a blinking, talking, and singing table that produced 19 fictional fish, including a prized sea monster.
Lauer in 2012 engaged in a creepy interview with actress Anne Hathaway, who was on a press tour for Les Misérables when a photographer crouched down as she got out of a car and took a photo up her skirt.
Contributing Opinion Writer COATZACOALCOS, Mexico — Angelica López crouched beside the train tracks that run through this sweltering city in southern Mexico, cradling her 0003-year-old daughter, calling to her 7-year-old son not to stray too far from her.
Holland's theatricality shines through in his stunt challenge video, in which he follows his stuntman's instructions to perform a flip — but then jumps up from his crouched landing position and twists in the air before landing back on his feet.
The article could have been just another human-interest story about our society's failing commitment to mental health, except that the man crouched in conversation with the birds was John Kidd, once celebrated as the greatest James Joyce scholar alive.
It is the self I build in essays about motherhood, obsessed with questions of home and goodness and seeing, and it is the self he finds while crouched with his camera beneath an exploding tower of fireworks in a village fiesta.
For a few minutes, I stood on an underwater reef, poking at a school of pink jellyfish; then I was deep in an ocean trench, using my hand controller as a flashlight while I crouched to look for sea turtles.
I stood on my tiptoes, leaning forward with my back arched and my breast stuffed into the mammogram chamber, with the doctor crouched underneath me and the technician watching a screen, calling out quadrants like my breast was a Battleship board.
The standout in the second half is Gracie Gardner's "Ballgirl," a stream-of-consciousness monologue, directed by Emma Miller and starring Patrice Bell as a teenager stationed at the sidelines of the United States Open, crouched and ready to spring.
As the details of the gorilla's story gathered in the press, he was often depicted in a stylish wire-service shot, crouched with an arm over his right knee, brooding at the camera like Sean Connery in his virile years.
Many of her illustrations explore her relationship with her cat, Odin, and her meal portraits trounce any food porn account, whether she's twirling inside of a massive donut, showing off last night's pasta, or crouched under a gargantuan tomato plant.
They're dressed in their brand new school polo or dress, and mum is usually crouched down next to them, proudly displaying their new Big Kid off to Big School with their lunchbox neatly packed into the Big Bag hanging off their backs.
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Crouched on a sidewalk near Venezuela's border with Colombia, construction worker Deiver Guarate said Sunday's presidential election has already been decided in favor of President Nicolas Maduro, and he did not plan to stay around to hear the results.
With the ballboys wearing strikingly similar shirts, the German would not have looked out of place if he had swapped places with one of them and stood to attention at the rear hoardings or crouched down on both knees near the net posts.
Trees shoot up from a crouched woman's spine or like wings from a man's shoulder blades; a triptych of silhouetted busts expose teeth made of gold; a third eye glows from the forehead of a baby whose hand and waist fade into air.
But in her Paris showroom this night, just a handful of her Chinese team members were crouched at laptops amid cramped clothing racks, storage boxes and styling boards, while a French hairdresser fussed over models being fitted with creations from her latest collection.
While William, 36, crouched down to make truffles with children during the bash, one woman in attendance asked why he had not brought his own children – Prince George, 5, Princess Charlotte, 3, and Prince Louis, 7 months – to take part in the festivities.
The piece that stayed with me was the artist Do-Ho Suh's "Karma," a stainless-steel man with another man crouched on his shoulders, and another man on his, and on his, and on his, arching high above us like a human spine.
A Bulgarian writer held one of the wine bottles we had emptied; he crouched in the center of the circle and then stepped back to the periphery once he had set it spinning, which it did crazily over the cobblestones of the patio.
The boldest feature of the suit, Dean said, was the use of an asymmetrical design, with seaming that runs diagonally along the body instead of evenly across, meant to minimize tension in the suit when the skaters are navigating turns in crouched positions.
When we meet Zach Taylor, the 6-year-old boy at the heart of Rhiannon Navin's audacious debut novel, "Only Child," he is crouched in a closet with the rest of his first-grade class, in the midst of one such lockdown.
When a tall fighter punches down on a crouched man the periods when his guard is up shorten so that as soon as the crouching fighter jumps up with a left hook he can catch the taller fighter with his hands down.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State militant, his AK-47 cradled between his legs, crouched next to the driver in the front of the bus, near a placard in the windshield that read B-9, which stood for bus No. 9 out of 17.
Three batters later, Neil Walker, a former Pirate, hit a line drive to right field that flummoxed Gregory Polanco, who paused charging the ball, crouched and then dove late as Walker turned a likely third out into a triple on the misplay.
And there we were, me crouched over in my chair, her bent between my knees, holding up a jar of Soultanicals hair butter as I parted and combed and wove her hair into an intricate pattern of flat twists, enjoying our closeness.
Ioan Grillo NOGALES, Mexico — Crouched in the spiky terrain near this border city, a veteran smuggler known as Flaco points to the steel border fence and describes how he has taken drugs and people into the United States for more than three decades.
But I was reminded in those moments of the kind of humility it takes to be crouched in an uncomfortable position beneath the hot piece of cloth waiting for the eye of the camera to do what you wanted it to do.
OKLAHOMA CITY – One of two armed bystanders credited with fatally shooting a gunman who opened fire at an Oklahoma City restaurant said he crouched behind cars as he approached the shooter and tried to get him to drop his weapon but the man kept firing.
O'NEILL, Nebraska — On the day her life changed and the small town where she lives was divided, Angelica crouched inside a cramped compartment on the back of a truck used to transport pigs to the pork processing plant where she worked in rural Nebraska.
It was truly a bizarre fight to behold as Evans crouched low in his stance, ate jabs while swinging wild left hooks and overhands in attempts to counter, and did nothing to stop Bader from kicking him while throwing almost no kicks of his own.
But the world has changed since 1982, the day Walt Disney's "Future World" opened, and so the last stage has been updated to show the inside of a garage, where a shaggy, bearded man is crouched over a desk, building the first home computer.
Forty minutes later, when Reagan emerged from the hotel, Mr. Hinckley crouched down and fired six shots, hitting four men: Reagan; James S. Brady, the White House press secretary; Timothy J. McCarthy, a Secret Service agent; and Thomas K. Delahanty, a Washington police officer.
MARGARET RIVER, Australia — On a warm, sunny day in February, Will Berliner, the proprietor of Cloudburst, crouched and scuttled under the bird netting that had been draped over the vines in his small vineyard just two miles from the Indian Ocean here in Western Australia.
A 1962 promotional photograph of Arthur Mitchell as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream shows him crouched in dense foliage with a crown of leaves in his hair, a choker around his throat and his taut naked arms extended to touch a nearby tree trunk.
Michael tested the scenario by going over to the platform's edge, where he crouched, then eased into sitting, like the strong silent type, dangling his legs over the side, daring the drop, and then just dropping, like that, ta-da but without the applause.
The Kims' sunken home is assaulted by clouds of fumigation rolling in and drunk men peeing outside the kitchen window; son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jeong use their phones crouched by the toilet, the only place where they can steal nearby internet signals.
He credited one manager, Red Davis, with helping him to harness his power by suggesting that he hit from a slightly crouched batting stance, and he credited another, the former pitcher Johnny Vander Meer, with converting him from an outfielder to a first baseman.
Last October, he was sitting in the garden of the community center when he got an urgent phone call from a neighbor: Crouched in a doorway near the Beit Hadassah checkpoint, about 220 yards from the community center, there was a girl with a knife.
Kjaerbye placed a smoke on the bomb to limit Snax's sight and crouched around the pillar, taking Snax out with a headshot with enough time to defuse the bomb and give Astralis enough confidence to win Overpass 16-14 and push the finals into map three, Train.
He is half-crouched with right forearm resting on knee and gazing appreciatively at his partner, while she thrusts her taut belly forward and kneels next to him in a favorite Yuskavage pose (reminiscent of the posture in "Sweetpuss"), her rounded back exposing her small, bare breasts.
One minute you're crouched in the backseat of your dad's car, innocently sipping juice through a plastic cup and all wide-eyed with excitement; the next, you're a grown up calculating exactly how much you'll earn after paying tax, wondering how you'll ever afford a mortgage.
When we found a pokémon on a recent stroll, I crouched down beside her and held the phone, while she handled the simple action of tossing the pokéball (warning: you'll run out of balls pretty quickly when you rely on a three-year-old's sense of aim).
As he crouched behind a car in the parking lot as gunfire echoed around him, he did not fit any biker stereotype: He drove his car to Waco and was making $123,000 a year as a mortgage-underwriting manager at a financial services company in San Antonio.
A woman next to her was shot, and Ms. McCoy, 37, ran for the patio, climbing over people, tripping over them as they crouched to avoid the spray of bullets, trying somehow to brace her body to take the bullet she feared was coming her way.
One in particular stood out: an image of the busboy crouched over Kennedy, the senator's arms flung wide as he lay sprawled on the floor, gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who had objected to Kennedy's support for Israel.
If your big turkey dinner has ever been split into two separate dining setups — one for kids, one for adults — you know the angst of being the oldest one crouched over a pint-size play table, and the glory that comes with your first holiday spent with the adults.
I thrashed and shook, stood up and crouched back down, turned my hand into an angry geometric spike while checking my watch, conjured up every bizarre multi-step set of button commands from previous interactions I could think of, and otherwise smashed my controller's buttons with varying results.
The long, thin braid extending down her back, from the base of her otherwise shaved head, turned out to be a feature shared by her three male colleagues, who soon joined in for a more airborne sequence, with one dancer leaping over the crouched figures of two others.
Watching extensive videos of Pollock painting — it's hard not to conjure up images of the painter crouched over a canvas on the floor, chain smoking and dripping paint from a can — the research team tracked how fast he moved and how close (or far) he was from the canvas.
Each morning, Lieutenant Hierl woke before the rest of Third Platoon and crouched in a nearby tree line, poring over a map and a computer tablet to ensure that machine guns and mortars that were firing from the rear were angled correctly to avoid hitting the advancing Marines.
Standing along the first-base sideline, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona crouched near the ground and then helped Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama treat Mr. Barth, the congressional aide, who had been shot in the leg while in center field and had managed to stumble into the dugout.
Caste rules forbid them to sit on chairs or cots if higher-ranking people are present, which is pretty much all the time, so I interviewed them the way I always did: me sitting on a cot, them crouched at my feet, looking up at me from the ground.
I spent many a Saturday night perched on a stack of thick yellow phone books, crouched at some ungodly angle between my mother's knees, trying desperately not to flinch beneath the heat of the fire-red hot comb as she dragged it around the edges of my thick mane.
" Though the Congressional resolution of apology to Native Americans is void of any gestures signaling sincere repair, "Whereas" ensures that this grief, this absence, will be given presence, be given a body to wonder: "If I'm transformed by language, I am often / crouched in footnote or blazing in title.
One winter's day, when he came upon her crouched shivering in a ditch with her three goats, soaked from the rain and flushed with fever, Don Santiago tied up the goats and slung her over his shoulder like a sack, thankful she was so small and weighed so little.
"Isn't it time for us to straighten our crouched backs and say 'enough', say that the government should first care for the needs of its citizens and not what Brussels, Washington or non-governmental organizations want?" he told hundreds of followers in Topolcany, a town northeast of the capital Bratislava.
We're also treated to "Someone Like You", "Rolling in The Deep", and newbie "All I Ask", the Bruno Mars penned 70s ballad that features a blockbuster key change and melisma so killer that somewhere Mariah Carey is crouched deep in her gilded butterfly lair, jabbing pins into an Adele-shaped voodoo doll.
While it is difficult to see the student the whole time—she is blocked by the three officers for a portion of the tape—the 278-year-old tells VICE that at one point during the video, when she is seen crouched on the floor, she was pepper-sprayed by Officer Braziel.
There's the suggestion of peace and rest in the music (Bejar himself mostly crouched next to his microphone stand and drank during the long instrumental breaks at the show I saw) but the lyrics offer no such respite, just the symbological chaos and hyper-referential poetry echoing the unsettling state of the world.
Evans turned her camera on the people, shooting from the hip to capture figures like a weathered and majestic farmer named Roy, his face set in determination beneath his straw hat; an Amish Mennonite couple posed before some scrappy foliage; and a stoic girl crouched barefoot in the shade of a tree.
Phrases like "MANY LOVED ONES WILL DIE" were on my mind when I boarded the plane back to the U.S.; they were in my head when I crouched in the economy class lavatory, trying to talk myself out of a mid-flight panic attack; and they've been my constant companion ever since.
After millions witnessed the creative touchdown celebration by the Dallas Cowboys rookie running back on Sunday night – he hopped into one of the huge red kettles behind the end zones at AT&T Stadium, crouched to disappear and then sprung to applause – online donations to the Salvation Army spiked 61%, according to the charity.
Mr. Hecht can be found there five days a week, crouched at the workbench, where he fixes sewing machines for the likes of Broadway costumers and the alteration departments of big retail stores, or in what he calls the front office, a wooden booth about the size of a ticket taker's at the cinema.
After students planted saplings, Harry planted his own tree — a wild cherry sapling — in recognition of the achievements of the QCC and the Woodland Trust charity in providing 74,000 trees across the U.K. On the way in, Harry crouched down and admired some special welcome signs that the children had created for his visit.
In a single photograph, taken in Agra in 1983, the Taj Mahal is in the background, a steam train is in the foreground and two men ride in front of the engine, one of them crouched, white-bearded and wearing a white cap, the other in a loosefitting brown uniform and a red turban.
Men and women — but mostly men — crouched to kiss his cheek and offer words of encouragement as they entered and left through the restaurant's red doors, a path that forced all to pass by Mr. Dietl, who sat in his usual perch at Table 1, reserved for him every Thursday night, by the front door.
Forget weekend buddhist retreats in Cornwall or those Bhakti yoga lessons you saw discounted on Wowcher... If you can spend two hours, hungover, crouched in the darkened foyer of a one man Quechua tent, cleaning your disgusting body from head to toe with 400 moist tissues, then you will have discovered the true essence of self-realisation.
Given nothing more than what 255 callers told a dispatcher — that a black man with a brown jacket and bluejeans was pointing at people with something that looked like a gun — they screeched to a stop at the corner where Mr. Vassell spent most days and, after he crouched and aimed the pipe at them, almost instantly shot and killed him.
The Inverse is guided by the same thought process that produced Man=flesh/Woman= flesh – FLAT, in which participants, all of whom were disabled (Lima did not always refer to them as such, and instead said their bodies carried a special history), lay on a floor inside an impossibly small room; viewers again crouched down to view them through a small hole.
Bennett gave a halftime interview, letting the interviewer know, "I think I just was crouched down, and was a little dehydrated and got up, and blacked out a little bit, but I'm OK." The interviewer pressed him even more, reiterating that people were worried, and this is when Bennett looked a little dazed again, as he repeated his answer woozily.
Franklin Roosevelt chowed down on a sandwich while sitting in a car during the 1932 campaign; Robert Kennedy crouched over a diner counter while managing his brother's run for president; Ronald Reagan swung by an Alabama McDonald's for a Big Mac in the 1984 race; Bill Clinton notoriously swung by McDonald's as often as he could and ate almost everywhere else.
Just slag off whoever's currently crouched behind a Macbook trying to remember how a trackpad works so they can play approximately 32 seconds of six songs on YouTube before falling over and ripping the aux out of the laptop, bringing the laptop crashing to the floor where they writhe in agony amongst a puddle of spilt beer and discarded ash.
He then planted his own tree — a wild cherry sapling — in recognition of the achievements of the QCC and the Woodland Trust charity in providing 74,000 trees across the U.K. On the way in, Harry, who is expecting his first child with wife Meghan Markle in late April, crouched down and admired some special welcome signs that the children had created for his visit.
But surveillance video released by the Jordanian military on Monday and an interview with the 30-year-old American staff sergeant who survived the shootout shows a far more troubling scene: a five-minute clash during which the Americans fired back, crouched behind barriers and waved their hands desperately to stop the shooting, before the Jordanian charged with an assault rifle to try to finish them off.
But she recovered her form—metronomic tempo, skis parallel, body crouched, "knees to skis and hands in front," as the family mantra goes—and took on the meat of the course with calm determination, to the extent that calmness can be attributed to a woman punching aside heavy, rubbery poles at a rate of more than one a second, while pogoing from side to side in flat light down a wall of rutted ice.
Newly released video of the killing of three American Special Forces soldiers in November at the gate of a military base in Jordan shows that the episode, which was initially explained as a split-second mistake by a Jordanian guard firing on Americans who failed to stop, was actually a six-minute gun battle where Americans crouched behind barriers and repeatedly waved their hands in surrender as the gunman closed in and killed them.
As I watched Ali crouched over his pot of rice, shyly smiling up at me then quickly lowering his eyes, it was hard not to wonder about a continuum here — a people among whom had lived Africans willing to help sell their own into slavery; a people among whom lived those willing to employ "a houseboy" and a "housegirl" in her 220s, who lived in darkened rooms, while a family lived comfortably a few feet away.
He held my hand as we crouched down to squeeze through the opening; he held my hand as we shuffled around inside, my heart thumping so hard that I was surprised the others didn't hear it; held my hand as I said firmly that, no, I didn't want to go through a passageway to see the spectacular views of the bay below; held my hand as I scrambled at last into the hot, dry air, not even bothering to conceal my panic.
So we and the camera-bearers – who advance in front of him, semi-crouched, as if stalking some jungle beast – follow him, tripping over each other, mildly aggressive through our excessive politeness, all trying, desperately trying, to get half a look in, at this pot or other, as Grayson walks between the tightly wedged stacks of plinths topped by plexiglass boxes, regimented in rows, full of the spitty stuff of his youthfulness, prompted to reminisce by many softball questions from the director.
Marine helicopters on maneuver kept dipping toward swells at Black's Beach, my board's poise giving way to freefall of my wave tubing over me, nubs of wax under my feet as I crouched under the lip, sped across the face and kicked out— all over Southern Cal a haze settled: as if light breathed that technicolor smog at sunset over San Diego Harbor where battleships at anchor, just back from patrolling the South China Sea, were having rust scraped off and painted gray.
The grackles plummet down to pierce the lawnFor seeds and fat brown live oak acorns andIgnore the orange plastic watering cansMy daughters drop in the cold grass, my daughtersSaying, Goodnight grass, as if the blades they'd wateredBy hand were their daughters, as if the grassWere a feeling they'd been feeling, greenlyReckoning the evening, the ball moss falling from the trees,The sun circling the crouched shade of the weepingPersimmon tree as mildly as the knife roundsThe persimmon I bring inside so I can sayOf the pierced skin, Look, this is the color weWant sunset to be, the color of the plasticWatering cans shocking the dark that fallsOver the suggestions of footprints in the grass,The black grackles, and the acorns batteringOur metal roof while I feed my ravenous daughtersA soft dinner that they clutch with grubby hands and gnaw.

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