Word: stoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angry and horrified that Robert Redford would stoop to make a name and money for himself from a movie, and not consider the misfortunes of the few who have paid dearly because of the mistakes of others...
...handful of Wellesley women, a pride of preppies, and a torrent of ordinary white people either glued to the walls in sullen observation or flailing rhythmically in intoxicated syncopation. What they had left for our brooms at four a.m., besides the beer cans and cigarettes, we did not stoop to inquire: some hair, a shred or two of clothing, bits of fingernail, and even blood perhaps...
...prisoners, the great German admirals Raeder and Doenitz, squabble like jealous ensigns; the disintegrating Rudolph Hess, once Hitler's deputy, malingers and throws fits to garner pity. Speer, who displayed no discernible sympathy for workers during the '30s and '40s, grows hungry. He observes: "I often stoop to pick up crumbs of bread that have fallen from the table. For the first time in my life I am discovering what it means not to have enough...
...astounded that you should stoop to pick the bones of J. Edgar Hoover...
Hall, a sixtyish-looking man who wears conservative suits, has been with the school for 35 years, serving as director for the past 20. The tall, craggy director wears thick glasses and walks with a slight stoop. He stresses that there is no relation between his name and the school's, which was drawn from the name of the building in which it was originally founded. Hall downplays his own role within the school, claiming that the board of trustees makes all the important decisions. He says that the board has three members, but declines to identify them...