Word: stooping
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...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...
...white hair and beard have thinned; the furrows of nigh 74 years line the veld-weathered face that Frans Hals might have painted. But the pale blue eyes are tirelessly alert. The thinning figure, rather gaunt now, slippered and with a trace of a stoop, moves briskly...
...tall, stoop-shouldered man with a mighty tongue and a little mustache took office in Cairo last week as the third Greek Premier within a fortnight...
When the distinguished visitor gave his first press conference last week in Manhattan, Americans saw an extraordinarily mild-eyed, 69-year-old prelate whose six-foot height was dissembled in an habitual stoop of age. His was not the constrained mildness of a prince of the church whose natural fierceness of temper has been beaten and battered into benignity. It was a natural gentleness refined by devotion, austerity and great human sympathy. And there was a sense of easy power about him, fitting as comfortably as his open prelatical coat and apron, his greavelike buttoned black gaiters. The Archbishop...
...most controversial plays to hit the big time in the last year, "Decision" was written by no less innocent an author than Edward Chodorov, producer of such scripts as "Junior Miss" and "My Sister Elleen." In this attempt Chodorov does not stoop to satisfying the public for the sake of pecuniary gains, but launches out on an attack of the fascist interests at work in promoting social unrest in America's crowded boom towns...