Word: stooping
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...field artillerymen. Quartermasters, Naval Reservists and Naval Supply units moved out of their positions. The band struck up the field artillery "Caisson Song" as the massed batteries paraded across the field toward the spectators, then wheeled to the left to pass before the reviewing stand. The 3000 onlookers stoop up in the stands to view the massed columns, with flag dipped and eyes right, pass before the reviewing stand
Muenten, in 1906, was living the quiet life of a German instructor here. In best murder fiction tradition, he was harmless on the surface. He affected a scholarly stoop and a Van Dyke, and wore dingy, patched suits...
...even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...
Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of suffering may not be dimming the compassion which normally we feel." Whether or not British compassion was dimming, within eight London days...
Virginia Woolf was the unlikeliest artist on earth to stoop to propaganda, or to any form of public ingratiation. She did not do so here. Yet England and its people, its present, past, innocence and disease, are here summarized, in much the way a nightwind can summarize a continent...