Word: stooping
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years old. He was fat (from good living), rubicund (from good drinking). He walked with a stoop, talked with a lisp. He was tired from a lifetime of fighting singlehanded against "the inadequacy, the apathy, the bloodlessness that ruled England"; from prophesying without effect the things that at last had happened. Britons who had denied him leadership in prosperity, offered him leadership in disaster. He offered them "toil and blood and tears." In its extremity the nation seemed to recognize for the first time that the whole life of this man, whom it had hated and defamed, was a preparation...
...reserves sufficient for a year's consumption. But damage from bombings and requisitioning by the Germans have already nearly exhausted the reserves. It looked last week as if Norwegians might go hungry this winter. But it was certain that no real Norwegian, no matter how hungry, would ever stoop to eat a Quisling brisling...
...Cover) REWARD-DEAD OR ALIVE: Englishman, 25 years old, about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, indifferent build, walks "with a forward stoop, pale appearance, red-brownish hair, small and hardly noticeable mustache, talks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter S properly...
...Denver, last week, a towering, stoop-shouldered, stub-bearded old Scotsman pushed back his chair from behind an ancient rolltop desk, clapped on his battered Stetson at a rakish angle, and ambled through the door. Lord Ogilvy, 79, ace feature writer on the Denver Post for the last 30 years, started down the street...
...character is knocking around the house, even though he doesn't open his mouth. Gertrude Berg, who turns out The Goldbergs for CBS, has done this with a character named Rosie for the past five weeks. Rosie has apparently been in the next room, or on the front stoop, during the performance of The Goldbergs, but actually Roslyn Silber who plays the part has been in Hawaii...