Word: stooping
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...their own company, needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
...possible on hard and verifiable facts; and my way, I hope, will be the way of reasoned analysis." This is the historian's gambit, but the professor is so deeply committed to the Kennedy cause that he overlooks logical inconsistencies, relies on the unsupported generalization, and allows himself to stoop to political smear tactics...
...summer there were weekend fishing excursions to Smithfield Pond ("They had lovely beaches, and the water wasn't too cold. I can remember how we used to ride the horses into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted to know the correct time...
...like a king-sized Martian in a ten-gallon hat. "I've come to see my leader," he announced. A waiting Air Force staff car whisked him to Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
...around outside their theaters signing autographs. A sound truck sent out by the producers' League of New York Theaters drew up in a darkened street to proclaim "We hope this Equity strike ends soon." The actors, who call it a lockout, shouted back, "Lie! Lie!" Perched on the stoop of the Playhouse, Anne Bancroft announced: "We're the actors-the smiling ones. The worried-looking ones over there are the producers." Said Raymond Massey: "I'm sick of people saying to actors 'The show must go on,' as though actors, like policemen or firemen, were...