Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar Wilde, whose first slight volume of poetry appeared at nearly the same time as the play, in 1881; those without such a passion may recognize friends first met at Advocate discussions of minor poets. No matter the disposition, Stephen Michaels, who plays this fiercely languid lack knee stoop shoulder will be recognized as an actor of surpassing talents. With reed wrists and cuffs that billow to set them off he prances--for God's sake prances, there has never been such prancing with a human leg--prances through two acts, two loves and onto a cheery celibacy. The subtitle...
America, America, how do you breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...
...Kinshasa, Mobutu immediately rejected the ultimatum and said that he would "never stoop to negotiate with assassins." If he does not change his mind, warned Schramme, "I'll take measures of a greater scope. We are in a position of strength. We have shown that the Congolese National Army is incapable of defeating us. Who knows, I could even go so far as launching an offensive against Kinshasa...
While machinery has eliminated plenty of agricultural jobs, sometimes it works the other way around, with labor shortages causing "forced mechanization." In the case of tomatoes, field workers, turning from arduous stoop work to higher-paying jobs in town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California...
...name the anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser" [July 7]. It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity...