Word: stoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national consciousness that its themes are in soap operas and newspaper comic strips. Orphan Annie, a Right-minded strip distributed by the pro-Nixon New York News Inc., recently made the point that a man'of high principles-like Daddy Warbucks or, by implication, Richard Nixonwould never stoop to authorize a burglary...
...match, Dan "Boom-Boom" Steiner, sometime general counsel to the University, halted proceedings in order to present the Radcliffe squad with two dozen long-stemmed red roses. This gesture is indicative of the paternalistic sexism that Harvard has long been a party to. That the Harvard Administration should stoop to such depths in order to perpetuate its outdated beliefs is reprehensible in an academic community, and in 1973, a supposed age of enlightenment, we condemn...
...silver-haired old man, tall but slightly stoop-shouldered, rocked back and forth in an ancient chair at the center of the stage. His desk near by was piled high with printer's galleys and papers. He was finishing a dreamlike trip through his childhood, the final moment in a two-hour monologue on slavery, war and American history. From a packed audience at New York's Town Hall, a voice asked, "Mr. Douglass, what do we do? What...
More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...
...meticulous, stoop-shouldered Andreotti, however, had other ideas, because Italy is stumbling deeper into a recessionary quagmire of unproductive wage increases, rising unemployment, diminishing corporate profits and pressures on the lira. Before Parliament adjourns for the beach next week, Andreotti expects action on part of his long legislative program. He wants to provide industry with tax relief now and to unfreeze some of the $ 18 billion for public spending that has already been approved by Parliament but is tied up in Italy's strangling bureaucracy. That would give him the political momentum to rule confidently by decree during...