Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers. *And the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his New York Herald Tribune coverage of the 1934 America's Cup races...
...their own life. Each house of ten students elects its own leader, who takes a seat on the Boystown ruling council. The boys tend their own gardens, conduct their own religious services. Each noon, a young voice rings out the muezzin's summons to devotions. Then the orphans bow in prayer, including always the words: "And Thy blessings on our loved ones who are dead...
...postwar renewal in 1946). The wife of a Danish embassy official handed Kurt Nielsen a bunch of red and white carnations (Danish colors). Kurt pulled one out and handed it to Vic Seixas. The U.S.'s new Wimbledon champion made Denmark's unseeded finalist a deep bow, while 16,000 fans roared their approval...
...French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health is of great concern to all the world and you must, therefore, bow to the advice of your physicians." He signed the message...
...since the October Revolution, Moscow has set out again and again to Russianize Ukrainian culture and to collectivize the rich Ukrainian wheatlands, only to be met by passive, stubborn resistance from the peasants. Compromise on these occasions is usually signaled by a change of Russian administrators and a brief bow to Ukrainian culture. Recently the Kremlin began one of its periodic turnabouts...