Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repellant that street gangs indoctrinate recruits with severe beatings, but it is more shocking to learn that the Marine Corps's "few and the proud" draw blood and inflict pain on new members [NATION, Feb. 10]. I am ashamed to think that a U.S. Marine would stoop to such gang mentality. PETER E. WEISS Holyoke, Massachusetts...
Despite his unremitting sense of comic timing, Guthrie's show has its share of heart-felt--bordering on saccharine--moments. While his primary voice is one of cheerful sarcasm, he does stoop to write the kind of wistful and syrupy stuff into which American folk music has deteriorated. Guthrie's newer songs attempt poetic appraisals of the human condition--rather than satiric ones--which pale before the nutty genius of his older work. And when Guthrie, in his words, "sings pretty" instead of hokey and talky, he sounds a lot like Bob Dylan. But if this is a comparison which...
...Harvard youths that could grow up to shape the world. Instead he was flippant and crass. He littered his speech with profanities that I don't need to quote here. Now, I don't mean to sound overly pious, but I believe that usually when a man must stoop to using profanities it is because he does not have the intelligence to express himself in any other way. Does Gibson not even have the least bit of decorum to restrain himself when speaking in such an atmosphere, to such an audience? Then Gibson rudely instructed an audience member to bring...
Those who stoop in New Hampshire often conquer, but the contortions have left the winners aching long after. In 1988 George Bush promised no new taxes, and Bob Dole fatally refused; two years later Bush ripped his party apart when he abandoned his pledge. In 1992 Bill Clinton promised a juicy middle-class tax cut and upon election didn't bother with a decent interval: he jettisoned the idea before taking office. Lately New Hampshire hasn't just picked Presidents; it has presaged presidencies...
...Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...