Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found to his horror that neither he nor his wife could get his white tie tied properly. In a typical Johnson solution, he telephoned his old Texas friend, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, and rushed two miles to Clark's home to have the Justice tie his bow...
...varsity boating: stroke, Brownell; 7, Atherton; 6, Boyden; 5, Darrell; 4, DuBois; 3, Geertsema; 2, Adams; bow, Huntington; cox, Lefkowitz...
Paris greeted the new plan with cheers, predicted early approval by city officials. A few diehard conservatives still grumbled, but most people liked the clean modernism and the low bow to Paris' past. Wrote Critic Andre Siegfried in Le Figaro: "That which thinking Parisians demand is that their city, without refusing to be of its own century, not renounce [its right to] remain Paris. Delicate problem. Delicate reconciliation." Echoed the left-wing Combat: "Very seductive . . . They have succeeded perfectly...
...little red pennant announcing "get out of the way" to other scullers was fastened to the bow of his shell. He sped away, and soon returned, racing madly to the dock, only to find his time was thirty minutes and one second...
...W.R.A. provided a press book which explained to anybody who wished to read it, all about crew. The bow man, it said, was in the first seat in the shell, "in the stern." There were pretty girls perched in conspicuous places with little ribbons pinned to their collars, saying "Hospitality." Nobody ever found out what they were supposed to do or what their signs referred to, however...