Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When grades become an end in themselves, overstrong attitudes of competition result and students may crack, and the over emphasis may cause students to stoop to cheating, he continued...
...total recall of McCarthy heroines suggests that T. S. Eliot simply did not know the first thing about what lovely women do when they stoop to folly. They do not-in McCarthy books-smooth their hair with automatic hand and put a record on the gramophone. They are the gramophone. They come out of the clinches monologizing as they attempt to rearrange reality in a more comfortable shape, pat the pillows and make a man wish he had curled up instead with a good book. Old-fashioned readers may feel that Author McCarthy is adopting the classic line...
Morley and Kendall, being English, seem to take the grammar for granted; but Actor Taylor, a man who has earned an impressive hauberk stoop without ever changing his Pomona accent, keeps glancing uneasily over his shoulder as he mumbles all the great big three-syllable words...
...Stone of Scone, more than once snatched from its proper resting place, they are a source of inspiration and a symbol of authority. Without them, who can say what will become of moral standards on this campus? Who can foretell to what extreme and unsavory practices some will stoop? Who, indeed, can resist the temptation that presents itself to the weary doubles players as he strives in vain to return a wicked drive...
...clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out in the Sudan, pointed to the picture as the kind of thing they would never stoop to do: colonies may be lost but never one's dignity...