Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quote George Murphy on farm labor: "Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop [Oct. 16]." As a Californian of Mexican descent, I wish to assure Candidate Murphy that I am just tall enough to reach that old ballot...
...farmers hire immigrant labor from Mexico. "You have to remember," explains Murphy, "that Americans can't do that kind of work. It's too hard. Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop...
...nomination, Barry had a few more choice words about the nation's news media. "I don't use the black brush on newspapers or the radio or TV," he told Phoenix TV Reporter Ralph Painter in a filmed interview. "Newspapers like the New York Times have to stoop to utter dishonesty in reflecting my views. Some of the newspapers here in San Francisco, like the Chronicle, are nothing but out-and-out lies...
...into the five-foot pipe leading to the Tunnel. The inside turned out to look just as one would expect the inside of a concrete pipe to look; it was cheerfully lit and almost pleasant, however, except that the low "ceiling" made it necessary to walk with a slight stoop. We recognized the usual Tunnel fixtures: steam pipes, electric conduit, telephone cables. The pipe made a number of turns so that we could not be sure of our route, but it seemed that we passed under Elsie's and somewhere near the I.A.B. before turning east. Eventually, the pipe came...
...four decades since George Balanchine left his native Russia, he has never had a theater to compare with the one he grew up in - the grand Maryinsky in old St. Petersburg. With the desperate wit of a tenement boy playing stoop ball, he has fashioned his art to survive its locale - and in New York, where Balanchine has lived and worked for the past 30 years, its locales have been dingy, gloomy, unfriendly or cramped. But when Balanchine's New York City Ballet opened its spring season in the crystal splendor of the New York State Theater at Lincoln...