Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective instrument of peace and justice. When Britain and France later had to promise the U.N. to withdraw their invading armies from Egypt, that necessity only increased the anger of what used to be the U.N.'s most respectable 'supporters in those countries. They agreed to bow to the "decent opinion of mankind" as determined by a U.N. vote. But. they asked, did anything happen when Russia defied that "decent opinion" over Hungary, or India defied it over Kashmir...
...Foundation Day, schoolchildren in black robes were led out for compulsory rites honoring the God-Emperor, bowing toward the great walled palace in Tokyo as Moslems bow toward Mecca. Shops were closed, and throughout Japan's four main islands Shinto priests, stiff-backed, wearing their lacquered black horsehair headgear, intoned the virtues and divinity of Japan and its Emperor in high-pitched ululations understandable for the most part only to relatively few initiates...
...anxiety. As he noted in his diary, "No more painting of interiors with men reading and women knitting. They must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled the series of paintings that attempted in a Proustian way to be a single work of art, was perhaps even more successful in fulfilling the artist's wishes...
Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...
...addition, the Pru will probably help finance a 1,000-room hotel on the site, which will be one of Boston's biggest, and the city itself will spend up to $7,500,000 for a circular, 6,000-seat auditorium and convention hall. Finally, as a bow to modern, motorized living, the new Center will have underground parking for 5,000 cars, and since the buildings will take up only 30% of the site, the entire project will be landscaped with tree-shaded plazas and malls, reflecting pools, fountains and sculpture...