Word: stooping
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...editor, in Charlie MacArthur's scuffed patent-leather prose. "The situation called for immediate action," he wrote. "We . . . sent for The Experts. [Then] we were wheeled into the operating room while The Experts did a complete plastic job . . . We feel as good as new. No squeak, no stoop, even no squawk . . . While we were under the anaesthetic, a soft rain of $1,000 bills...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
...work. Prince of Foxes, which was being filmed in Florence, Venice, Siena and Rome - and using thousands of extras - would cost $3,000,000 (half of it in U.S. dollars). Anywhere else, according to Producer Darryl Zanuck, it would cost $10,000,000. Zanuck said that he would not "stoop to sweatshop practices . . . We are not in Italy . . . to cash in on another country's depressed condition...
...play chronicles the brilliant, unprincipled career of an Englishman who will stoop to any low trick out of love for his son. The theme...
...Students need guidance, especially during freshman year. What they find, too often, is a drab and rigid schedule, overcrowded classes, comparatively inexperienced and uninspiring teachers-for "in a curious way a tradition seems to have grown up that it is somewhat beneath the dignity of a full professor to stoop to teach freshmen." A further discouragement: "In some institutions it is the practice to do a big weeding-out job at the end of the first semester ... If the time spent in building up a case against a new man were spent in trying to find out how to make...