Word: stooping
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...urbane, intellectual and endowed with scruples; Senator Frank Lovejoy is self-made, self-obsessed and swollen with ambition. When a tough old pro of an ex-President rejects the role of kingmaker, Lovejoy plans to knock out Douglas by reviving a forgotten mental breakdown; and if Douglas will stoop, he in turn can bring up an old Army scandal...
Upperclassmen hazed him mercilessly, once forced him to stoop over the point of an upended bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
...Sunday Times, Kemsley preserved its status as Britain's leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
...folk songs. Jewish businessmen, leaving Rotarian lunches with their gentile colleagues, are offended by the sight of a shambling, stoop-shouldered old man with a Judaic beard and earlocks...
...MOUSY, stoop-shouldered little genius in steel-rimmed spectacles, Pierre Bonnard has sometimes appeared thin and small against the sunset immensity of his impressionist forerunners. But this week a sparkling retrospective exhibition at Washington's Phillips Gallery made plain that Bonnard did not follow the impressionists so much as fulfill them. Bonnard's art is impressionism freed from dazzle, pomp and optical theory for the service of feeling alone...