Word: stooped
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...clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out in the Sudan, pointed to the picture as the kind of thing they would never stoop to do: colonies may be lost but never one's dignity...
...General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...
...More Try. In Seattle, Leon Hubert Harent, 80, a stoop-shouldered invalid barely able to walk, handed a post office clerk a holdup note demanding $1,000, was arrested on the spot, admitted that he had been in prison for robberies almost continuously since 1894, added sadly: "I'm not very handy at anything; I've never been much of a success...
...began with a success so small that his predecessors would have been humiliated to stoop to it. Forming a coalition with Republicans, he ousted Red-lining Vito Marcantonio from his congressional seat. But De Sapio also took another step -and fell flat on his face. In the 1950 mayoralty race, De Sapio backed Ferdinand Pecora, a born loser, against Vincent Impellitteri, who won easily. Tammany's impotence was measured by the fact that it could not even beat Impy, an insurgent organization man with no machine...
...author of the article should care for his own principles more and his indignation less. Did it not occur to you what a shameful act this article was? This is a sad precedent when we amongst ourselves stoop to such irrelevant and contemptible weapons. The essence of freedom is privacy. America will never be secure in her freedom while liberals fight back with the same weapons with which McCarthy apparently corrupts us all. The particular injustices of McCarthy are alarming (though America is pretty used to such), but far less so than his general method of politics that abolishes...