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Word: bowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What do they tell of early Sardinia? The awesome priest, with double-handled dagger worn at chest height appears often, as do long-haired priestesses. Warriors abound, some garbed in helmets, breastplates and greaves, and capable of such feats as shooting a bow while standing on a bare-backed horse. A dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A CULTURE IN MINIATURE | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Today we have specialists in various aspects of sex as well as those who cull a little from each. There are undressing specialists who give us an accounting of every several button, strap, and bow, layer by layer, garment by garment. James M. Cain established the now large school of clothes-ripping technicians, who have shredded enough lingerie to clothe the poor of the world. James Jones contributed shorts-shucking, which follows halter-dropping in sequence. There are specialists in the texture and surface temperature of the body, ranging in the first case from marble to velvet; in the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lovable Bums & Jolly Slashers | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...varsity boating was: Bow, N. Tilney (Capt.); 2, T. Swayze; 3, M. Zuromskis; 4, R. Zeeb; 5, F. Hunnewell; 6, T. Everett; 7, J. McClennen; Stroke, R. Lawrence; Coxswain, B. Peale...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Heavyweight Crew Wins Adams Cup; Lightweights Sweep Elis, Tigers | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Varsity boating includes: Bow, T. Sheffield; 2, L. Ford; 3, V. Bertelsen (Capt.); 4, K. C. Chase; 5, G. Fritze; 6, L. McElroy; 7, M. Christian; Stroke, M. Hoffman; Coxswain, M. Byran...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Lightweight Crew to Race Tigers, Elis | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...skeleton in Michigan's family closet popped into the open last week when Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' 15-year-old daughter Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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