Word: stooping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...wouldn't stoop to the level of a low-lifed pig, a racist or a fascist or a sadistic Ku Klux Klansman or a criminal pig agent to brutalize and kill and murder a person just because of the color of his skin...
Perched on a familiar tenement stoop, she reads from a book called Sam. The story is about a black boy who has no one to play with, and the narrator -who has more children of her own than the TV director could possibly cram onto the set-shows poignant understanding of the problem. One day in February, the children's show will open: "This is Ethel Kennedy on Sesame Street." ··· "The call of the running tide," wrote John Masefield, "is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied." Actually, for Britain...
Sniffs, Chuckles. Reaction to the Murdoch mixture on Fleet Street, where the news a paper makes is sometimes more important than the news it prints, has ranged from raised eyebrows to winks. The conservative Sunday Telegraph sniffed at his stoop-to-conquer approach: "Be warned, Mr. Murdoch. The British are not all sheep, fit only for an Australian abattoir." A writer in the conservative Spectator chuckled: "All newspapers now are in for a lively time. The chips are down. You might even say the clothes are off too." The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially...
...near at hand is no disaster. People keep busy, and perhaps cheerful. In a sheltered corner between two carts and an inn wall, somebody is playing a fiddle. Higher up the hillside a man and a woman stoop low over the dark earth, bundling willow shoots to make baskets (see detail, pages 54-55). A child in a crescent crown carries a lamp. His mother leans like a crumbled moon above. His father dances, drunkenly perhaps, clutching what seems to be pipes of Pan. But they are waffles, baked at carnival time (see detail, page...