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Word: stooping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 46, able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Ambassador to the World | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Come On Up--at the Colonial--Mac West must be really hard up--for money--to stoop to this. Still, if you've never seen her in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Town | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Robertson, closemouthed, stoop-shouldered and almost bald, shies away from the press. He asked for the London job. He was tired from wartime chores, and broke. (His salary will remain the same but his living allowance will be much greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Right Job for Wrong | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Royal Nonentity | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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