Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kissinger concedes that, despite the perils of a nuclear-test ban, the U.S. has to bow to the Communist-cultivated worldwide fear of fallout. But instead of a ban on tests, he proposes a restriction on fallout. The West and the Soviet bloc could agree to equal fallout quotas. These quotas could gradually shrink to zero within a specified time, say two years. After that, until a general disarmament program came into effect, nations would be free to go on conducting tests, e.g., underground or in outer space, as long as there was no detectable fallout. Such an agreement-unlike...
...Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last year there has been a change in the smiling, accessible Bourguiba. Since he moved into the President's palace, he has become increasingly autocratic, petulant and impatient of criticism. Ambassadors were instructed to bow three times on withdrawing from his presence-a custom imposed by the Bey whom Bourguiba overthrew in the name of democracy...
...President Hoover, 84, concurs with the generally accepted designations of the rider on the white horse as War ("a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer"). He also agrees with the majority that the rider on the black horse was Famine ("and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice . . . say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt...
...model was towed out into a full gale and showed no signs of distress, although the tug that towed it had to run for shelter. When making a sharp turn, a Dracone does not swing like a ship; its fabric forms a kink that moves from bow to stern...
...sleek bow awash with silver spray, Columbia slipped across the finish line a mile and a quarter or 8 minutes, 20 seconds ahead of the broad-breasted challenger...