Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that web of obligations which keep the Japanese in a fine sweat between one-upmanship and one-downmanship. Fewer still have captured the pratfalls of Western emulation...
...house bow to a squire...
...small businessman, not moderately for any one such group. We are for them all the way." "Heartsick Ashamed." By week's end, the Harriman cry had been taken up by some other important Democrats. At a Colorado Young Democrats dinner in Denver, Michigan's ambitious, bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams devoted nearly all of a bitterly worded speech to an attack on moderation. Said Soapy: "In candor, I must say that I was acutely disappointed by the 'spirit of Chicago,' the spirit of temporizing with present problems ... I am made heartsick by those...
Faced with their youngsters' firm determination to marry whom they wish, many Japanese parents tend to bow to the inevitable, masking their parental pride behind a face-saving ritual in which the already-well-acquainted couple are formally introduced to each other. Many an urban bridegroom has a new respect for his prize. At Meiji Hall last week, one busy girl marriage clerk noted with satisfaction that nine out of every ten grooms let their brides step into the marriage limousine before them...
...looked something like a pudgy businessman, his feet planted wide apart, his shoulders raised into a pugnacious attitude, his jowls quivering earnestly with every accent. But his style was impeccable. Every bow movement, from delicate nudges at the tip to slashing down-bow accents, produced a flawless tone, fine-drawn and luminous, made mellow but not ripe by judicious use of vibrato. In a concert full of lovely little touches-his method of approaching such an essentially meaningless figure as a trill was a joy to the sense of propriety-Oistrakh even managed to breathe warmth and dignity into...