Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wasn't he too close to Democrats? "A lot of my friends have worn the Democratic label. But to no one in any political place do I owe anything. I'm in just as good a position to slug as any free American." But he would not stoop to character assassination. "I don't believe in it. I will...
Half Holiday. Harriman knows how to delegate large chunks of authority to his subordinates, yet worries over misplaced commas. He frequently forgets who is doing what job, yet can still recite from memory the call-down of his class roster at Groton. Gaunt, relaxed and notably stoop-shouldered, he drives himself from 8 a.m. until past midnight, and expects his staff to have the same endurance. Once he assigned an aide a job at 2 a.m. and was on the telephone at 7 a.m. to ask how it was coming. On another occasion, he strode out of his office...
...Check or Balance? This historic contention, which seems headed for a historic decision in the Supreme Court, was made in Washington district court before Federal Judge David A. Pine, a small, stoop-shouldered veteran of the bench. Now 60, Judge Pine once clerked for Wilson's Attorney General James McReynolds, who later became one of the crustiest conservative Justices of the Supreme Court and a target of Franklin Roosevelt's famed failure, the court-packing plan. A lifelong Democrat, elevated to the district court by Roosevelt in 1940, Pine is known for his independent thinking, dry humor, incisive...
...hunters of skill and experience, tiny, deft-fingered Police Inspector Shimpachi Utsugi recalls his triumphs with nostalgic respect for his quarry. "In the old days," says Utsugi of the time when he first joined the imperial police force, "Japan's pickpockets were proud professional men who would never stoop to employ such tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those...
Irving Burton, in the American Mercury, called Wolff ". . . a legend in himself. A bulky, six-foot, gangling, stoop-shouldered eccentric, he delights in walking about Cambridge with his pet chimpanzee and asserts that he can tutor anyone possessing the brain of his ape through college...