Word: stooping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how bloodthirsty, sick or satanic these criminals get, we must not stoop to their level. The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" applies to us too. Nora Berger Rockville, Conn...
...singular stoop that forces his chin down, perhaps the result of an injury. Part of his right eyebrow is missing. His voice is middle range. He does not appear weak, nor does he appear robust. He has a gracious manner with strangers. His handclasp is firm, his hair gray. He is less bulky than the stereotyped Soviet leader, but not thin...
Shagari has shown himself to be a politician willing to stoop to any means to bolster his career. A week after the expulsion order, the 32- story Nigerian External Communications building was destroyed in a fire. At least 30 people died in the blaze, which gutted the head-quarters of the nationally run telephone company, and which cut the country off from the outside world for several days. It was the third government building to burn in the past year-- all three of which housed ministries under investigation for multi-million-dollar government corruption. In each case, all potentially incriminating...
...rest, though Julia Poirier plays an impeccably bland mom. Douglas Faigel does a very lovely pretty boy as Jimmy's friend Kurtis. Susan Damplo provides a sharp-tongued fall to Jimmy as his sister Millicent and David Fruloll's expressive eyes make up or his less-than convincing stoop as the servant Clive...
...August of 1973 in California was glorious. Each morning, seduced from official papers, I sat on the veranda behind my office at the Western White House in San Clemente and watched as the sun burned the fog off the ocean. Occasionally I saw a slight, stoop-shouldered figure amble along the edge of the cliff beyond which lay only the beach and the Pacific. In that tranquil setting Richard Nixon was enduring the long final torment of his political career. Outside of the seclusion of San Clemente, the country buzzed with speculation about whether he would survive as President...