Word: stooped
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Even when Pope was an acknowledged great man he could stoop to trickery; once he hid some letters of his in Lord Oxford's study, hoping they would be stolen and published, saying he was afraid they would be. When Lord Oxford guarded them too carefully Pope was annoyed, had a hard time getting them back...
Enthusiastic if undistinguished drawings caricatured Donor Harkness on the back stoop eagerly picking up the News and the morning milk to see how his program was being received; shadowy, demoniac, pedagogs were pictured pouring down a horrid sworl of dicta and mandates upon a helpless undergraduate; the Corporation (board of Trustees) was seen servilely waiting upon the Harkness pleasure...
...door of the office of the Secretary of State in a low, cushioned chair sits a small stoop-shouldered negro named Edward Augustine Savoy. Aged 75, he has been swinging open the Secretary's door, ushering in and out Ambassadors and Ministers, since the days of Hamilton Fish...
...none of you must stoop...
...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...