Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ryan X-13 Vertijet, long rumored and unofficially described, made its official bow at a Pentagon showing last week. Its vertical takeoff, transition to horizontal flight and vertical landing-demonstrated by a movie-were an uncanny spectacle...
Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...
...IMPORTS will soon be curbed voluntarily by oil companies, Government believes. After trying unsuccessfully for two years to hold down imports (now running 510,000 bbl. a day more than Government wants as limit), Office of Defense Mobilization is conferring with top oilmen, is confident they will bow to President Eisenhower's implied threat to impose Government controls, tariffs on imports...
Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...persuaded El Maestro to take part in a Bach festival in Prades. From all over the world famed soloists-Joseph Szigeti. Isaac Stern. Rudolf Serkin-poured into the village on the slopes of the Pyrenees to play with the man Fritz Kreisler had called "the best who draws a bow...