Word: stooping
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...bridge nuts so intense about the game that they stoop to cheating...
...there is a villain to this story, it has to be this liberal political establishment so wed to its paternal power over American Blacks that it will stop at nothing--and stoop to anything--to prevent the inevitable erosion of power that an articulate and unbeholden new Black leadership represents. If anyone was "out of touch with reality," to quote Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), it was what's left of the left...
...From an elegant window, official tassels glitter against a clear view of the sky;/ Clouds enter, and one could stoop them along with one's sleeves./ There is no predicting whether I'll return to this place again;/ About to leave, I brush past the rocks and waste a new verse...
...fact, there is nothing but stillness behind the wall. The streets are empty save for two Protestant boys, Robert, 13, and Frankie, 15, sitting on a stoop, doing nothing. Neither one has ever gone within 10 yds. of the wall. Even at 20 yds., the slightest sound from the other side prompts them to run like startled deer...
...tension evaporated, and the librarians tucked into lunch, with wine. Healy, 67, is a reassuring presence, a tall man with a slight, accommodating stoop, ruddy coloring and blunt features. In mufti -- which he always wears at the library -- he could pass for a football coach or, with more pronounced sartorial accents, an aging sportswriter. He can discuss old movies or baseball or Virgil. He is, in fact, wildly articulate but manages to wear that gaudy mantle easily, without any of William F. Buckley Jr.'s arcane showboating...