Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appears to be their intent to tear down the J.C. Nichols Company, and me personally, in an attempt to gain operating control of the Company," McCarthy said in the statement. "It is a sad commentary that a former business partner would stoop this low to wrest control of the Nichols Company...
There are plenty of confrontational moments. As a study of human nature, Lifeboat is revealing on the subject of the depths people will stoop to (and rise to) to save their life. But much of the delivery gets lost in all the strutting and posing the actors do. Moreover, there are moments when everyone on the boat is holding separate conversations which seem unimportant since none of them is discernable with all the mutter of activity...
...wore)) unspectacular suits ... a slight stoop ... social climber...
...long after Bobby was assassinated, Jackie shocked the world by marrying Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon 29 years her senior. How could she stoop so far from American royalty? She was seen in all the trite celebrity camera shots: cruising the Mediterranean behind her trademark shades, sunbathing on a Greek isle, smiling broadly in nightclubs. Onassis had a magnetism that had attracted many women before her, including the great opera singer Maria Callas. But money was probably the largest motivation. Jackie had no intention of not living very well...
...Confessions of an Iconoclast" (May 3), G. Brent McGuire writes that I "explained that, in considering whether to write a letter about Peninsula's response to campus feminism, [I] `decided not to stoop to their level."' He asks, "But what is our level--complete English sentences?" While I congratulate McGuire on his ability to string together nouns, verbs, and adjectives, I need seek no further than his own article for examples of precisely what "his level...