Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network announcer, Ike's comment was: "Well, you got through all of that perfectly." Later in the week, as he toured through New Hampshire, Ike set the political Geiger counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (who turned out in Bermuda-length shorts to play golf with Ike at Whitefield's Mountain View course). At Concord he explained to a crowd of 20,000 gathered around the old (1819) granite State Capitol...
Standing beneath low-pitched eaves, must you not bow your head? -Chinese proverb...
...five days a week, and to his 80-acre estate in New York State on weekends. Hammarskjold is the most eligible bachelor in New York, but he keeps himself to himself. He goes bareheaded all the year round, wears ready-made blue or grey lounge suits, loafers, and bright bow ties. When he works he smokes a pipe; when he chats, a little cigar. He eats lightly and enjoys good wine...
...Last year his ambitions suffered a crippling blow; running for governor in São Paulo, as a fitting steppingstone to the presidency, Adhemar lost. After that, whenever a reporter whipped out a notebook, Adhemar insisted that he would run only if drafted and thus forced to "bow to the will of the people...
...stoles mixed with cab drivers and shoeshine boys. Some spectators shinnied up columns for a better view. After hours of "man-who" speeches, Adhemar entered, slapping backs, embracing, shaking hands. When at last his figure towered over them from the platform, the crowd whooped and cheered. Said Adhemar: "I bow...