Word: stooping
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...phenomenon of the wetbacks is not new, but until World War II, it was not a large one. The war siphoned off agricultural labor, particularly lowpaying, exhausting "stoop labor" along the lower Rio Grande, in New Mexico, Arizona and California. The wetbacks rushed into the vacuum...
...English country parson, with his kindly stoop, his dear old ladies and his teatime calls, was one of the comforting and comfortable pillars of the Empire. But no longer, according to Britain's sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued minor poet, John Betjeman...
...keep feeling we are sitting on our front porch while the back stoop burns. If we really are facing a battle for our lives with 25 million Russians, 10 million Chinese, and no telling how many more, what are we doing talking about an army of 3½ million? . . . ¶Why can't each of us learn a fighting job right alongside his regular work? Train us in shifts; form a "revolving" army. Let every able-bodied man between 25 and 45, say, join a unit and train a full six weeks twice a year . . . Between times, we could...
...usual on a Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...
Part of his successes were simply due to his capacity for decision and his instinct for sweeping aside triviality. He refused to stoop to the Washington weapons of gossip and rumor. But when Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that he was eavesdropping on Navy Secretary James Forrestal with a special electronic device, he angrily threatened to sue-not Pearson, but each of his 500 newspapers-and forced Pearson to print a retraction which Wilson wrote himself...