Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement, the almost indescribable delicacy of the sixth, and the forthrightness and power of the last made the opening four worth sitting through. To be sure, the quartet demonstrated technical control throughout, particularly in those places in which the music takes on the air of an etude for the bow...
...Bow? And what did Indonesia's first and only President think of it all? "I have no desire to be a king, a king of kings, a shah-in-shah," he told the Congress. "I want to participate in the leadership." Fortunately, the Congress had agreed to let him help Suharto select a new Cabinet. It was "help" that Suharto was not likely to make much use of, but still it gave the participation the Bung needed to save face. "When I heard this, my heart felt like going 'plong-plong,' " he said...
Thus spoke the man who less than a year ago was a snarling, swaggering demagogue whose hatred for the West made the Kremlin seem a neutralist. True enough, the Bung himself was not a Red ("Me bow down to Moscow? Anybody who ever came near Sukarno knows he has too much ego to be a slave to anybody"). Nor was Indonesia a member of the Communist bloc. Sukarno had his own ideas. His government, he constantly proclaimed, was based on the principle of NASAKOM-the happy union of Nationalism, Religion and Communism. The world was divided into NEKOLIM (neocolonialist imperialist...
Moss, now 53, won his first round in 1955 when, at his suggestion, a special House subcommittee on Government information was created-with Moss as chairman. The subcommittee quietly launched an exhaustive investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam...
...those bright kids. Education? Physical fitness? Culture? Why, the Senator almost invented them. As for politics, hardly a day goes by without his making a speech, offering an amendment, getting his picture in the papers, jetting up to Manhattan or down to Latin America. Senator, take a bow...