Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy waves. With horror, crew members reported that the cars and trucks on the auto deck were about to break from their flimsy moorings. Sure enough, they did, cascading into the ship's sides. Worst of all, a huge 16-ton trailer truck was improperly parked by the bow exit. Each time the ship pitched, it rammed against the door. Finally, the door gave way and in spilled the Aegean waters. Radioed the Heraklion: "S O S. We are sinking...
...royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove his hat and bow politely in return. At state dinners, the footmen behind every other chair are restaurant waiters hired just for the occasion. Sweden is the kind of kingdom where the leader of the Communist Party, resplendent in white tie and tails, enjoys dining with...
...young intern from Harvard Medical School ('53), Dr. William Haddon Jr. adopted the custom of wearing bow ties because "I didn't want a tie draping over patients." Today, as administrator of the three-month-old National Traffic Safety Agency, Haddon still remains considerate of his patients. Last week, amid the chrome of the annual Detroit Auto Show, the industry's brass gathered to hear what Haddon's agency had in mind. To their vast relief, they discovered that they could live pretty well with Haddon's opening list of mandatory safety regulations...
...timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which a boat rests may not fit properly and thet boat will tend to "hog," that is, sag at both bow and stem...
...mind having their political associations made public property, and in the cases of some organizations -- Students for a Democratic Society, for example -- the University has only the names of the already publicity-soaked officers. But Harvard must keep even these lists to itself. The history of HUAC shows that bowing to any of its demands leads to increased pressure to bow to all of them...