Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press promptly burst into a chorus of high-minded admonishment. Editorialists, in their best voice-of-reason tones, reproved the hasty Connally; readers wrote grave letters of warning to editors; Communists crowed. Columnist Walter Lippmann exhorted with heavy passion: "We can not, we must not stoop to it ... For it would illustrate too dramatically the propaganda of our enemies -namely, that American philanthropy undermines the independence of the nations which accept...
...debate of the Kashmir issue, Nehru insisted that Pakistan must be labeled the aggressor, and that India could not stoop to appeasing aggressors. Over the weekend at Chequers, the Prime Ministers' country home, Attlee and Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies tirelessly tried to bring about an agreement between Nehru and Pakistan's Liaquat AH Khan. Crux of the matter was when and how a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population. India insists that Pakistan withdraw not only its troops but also its "irregulars" (i.e., large numbers...
...stoop-shouldered, cosmopolitan Muscovite, who left Russia in 1920, easily explained how & why he had produced the drawings. "As a youth, taking Leonardo for my model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then...
Walter C. Carrington '52, president of the Society for Minority Rights, said he thought it "unfortunate that the Young Republican Club, which could do so much good, should stoop to such rather childish tactics." Carrington added that he thought an open hearing would be a good thing...
...Time." Each gang had a president, a vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...