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Word: stooping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard police officers said yesterday they believe O'Connor is innocent of the charges. "We don't believe he would stoop so low as to do something like this--He's got six children," a source said...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Former University Policeman Will Face Jury's Decision | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...Goldstein '80, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, thinks the creation of a Harvard cheerleading squad is "almost embarrassing." When Goldstein went to Harvard football games freshman year, she remembers, "people would always make fun of the other team's cheerleaders. We felt elite, because we didn't stoop to that...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: V--I--C--T--O--R--Y | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...years' time. Even so, the conservation gains are not likely to be enough to offset the latest price increases. For poverty-line people and the elderly, the situation can be desperate. In Morrisville, Vt., a welfare mother of four made headlines by ripping up the front stoop of her mobile home to use as firewood because oil costs had risen beyond her reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Fear-of-Freezing Blues | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws" -this is a demeaning term used only by whites-and though I have often been the object of sexism it wounds me deeply that TIME would stoop to racism in an attempt to make a joke. The Indian I portray in this film is no joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...designed alike, restaurants often use the same china, waiters and waitresses wear the same austere black and white uniforms--the government maintains diverse economic establishments that cater to different Cuban clienteles. There is the local bar in the town of Trinidad in which the only barstool is a concrete stoop. And then there is the Tropicana nightclub, still perhaps the most lavish in the world, where dancers in glitter and feathers parade across an outdoor stage set amid a grove of palm trees...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

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