Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Europe sadly took it for granted Sunday that John Foster Dulles will have to bow out of the international arena...
Aboard the tug H. Thomas Teti Jr. on the choppy mist-veiled East River below, Co-Captains Samuel Nickerson and Everett Phelps suddenly heard a sound across the water like "dynamite going off." They flipped the wheelhouse searchlight on, saw, 800 ft. off the tug's bow, the shattered hulk of Flagship New York settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight...
...snorts Premier Mamadou Dia of Senegal, "does not interest us." And Premier Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland, on Ghana's border, wants to delay his own country's independence until Nigeria gets its in 1960, on the simple theory that Nigeria's 34.7 million people would never bow to Nkrumah...
...belated bow to 20th century custom, the Church of England Assembly voted to institute a 24-hour information service, thus spare the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, who democratically answers his own phone at Lambeth Palace even in countless wee-hours calls. "When the telephone rings at midnight," asked one assembly delegate, "is it resented as an intrusion on one's sleep or welcomed as an opportunity to spread the Gospel?" Said the Archbishop forthrightly: "At Lambeth it is resented...
Last week the young men of the Harvard Crimson made another bow to the inevitable encroachment of womankind, and for the first time elected a girl writer to their editorial board. Their choice came with well-established credentials. She is Alice Patterson Albright, 18, redheaded Radcliffe freshman and a fifth-generation heir apparent to the famed Patterson-McCormick newspaper publishing dynasty of New York and Chicago...