Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly going his own Roman way at St. Andrew's for 33 years. But this spring he found himself with a new bishop and a peck of trouble. Southwark's Bishop Mervyn Stockwood (who caused a ripple of censure himself when he arrived in Southwark wearing a bow tie) heard of the popish goings-on at St. Andrew's and called Anglican Harris on the carpet. Yes, said the priest, he celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head of the Church"). Yes, he had celebrated the Feast...
...east-west runway at Lancaster (Pa.) Municipal Airport at 5:30 one morning last week when the rangy truck driver from Porterville, Calif, set to work. Wearing only a pair of white toreador pants and a pair of suede chukka boots, Dan Lamore, 31, was gaudy enough. But his bow was the real eye stopper: a 54-in. monster made of fiber glass and maple, which required a force of 250 Ibs. to be shot at full power...
...arrow 937.13 yds. away, they discovered that he had broken the old N.A.A. record for distance flight by nearly 50 yds. But Lamore, one of 1,000,000 toxophilites in the booming sport of archery, was just warming up. Half an hour later, using a 130-lb. hand bow, he fired an arrow 850.67 yds. to break the N.A.A. mark...
...soon. With little more than 4,700 miles of interstate roads finished so far, highway funds have run so low that contract awards or advertising for bids have been stopped by 24 states from Maine to Washington, including New York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes on autos and parts...
...knuckle under. But that is not true, and to demonstrate it, she wanted to stay in the contest-partly because, she felt, Senator Jack Kennedy was in much the same boat as she, i.e., his presidential candidacy is being opposed by people who fear that he might have to bow down to "hierarchical authority...