Word: bowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harriman made appropriate statesmanoid sounds by delivering a foreign-policy speech to a Democratic "1956 strategy" dinner in Manhattan. Among his hearers were Tammany's Carmine DeSapio, Pittsburgh's Mayor and Boss Dave Lawrence, and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who thinks his green bow-tie talisman may lead him to the vice presidency at least. Another guest, National Chairman Butler, brought encouraging words. A few days before the dinner, he told Albany reporters that "many people around the country" favor Harriman for President...
...real, but really only a part of Japan. The stenographer who trips along in high heels and Western dress is often hurrying home for a quiet lesson in flower arranging. The man who elbows his way into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow two or three ceremonial bows to an acquaintance. The Western-tailored businessman returns at night to a severely plain house of wood and paper. At the entrance he takes off his shoes, steps onto a straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning...
...Japan of ten years later is imprinted with indelible marks of U.S. occupation, but far less than and in different ways from those the occupiers intended. The once divine Emperor is now a constitutional monarch, comfortable to have around and to bow to, but without power that he might abuse. Land reform has broken down the prewar imbalance under which only 30% of the farmers owned the land they farmed: by last year, only about 1,200,000 acres were tenant-farmed...
...Seniors Bow Out Gracefully...
What's My Pain? last week made its bow on Steve Allen's Tonight program (NBC, Mon.-Fri. 11:30 p.m.1 a.m.). As the panel of "experts" postured diagnostically on the edge of their chairs, the first contestant signed in. His name: Steve Passanante. His pulse: 78. His blood pressure: normal. The panel failed in its first snap judgments (upset stomach, twisted esophagus), and time ran out before they could correctly identify the ailment (a sty). Lucky Contestant Passanante (played by Singer Steve Lawrence) won the full prize: two weeks' free hospitalization and "a year...