Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder if Kennedy will turn the French against De Gaulle, the Koreans against General Park and the Egyptians against Nasser if they refuse to bow to our way of thinking...
...skylarks down the scruffy street, the colored slum kid in the Northern city, headed for the public school. He wears a white shirt with a bow tie, and a good warm windbreaker. His smile is toothy, his epithets vile. He is eight, and can't read much. His teacher, a man with a heart of case-hardened gold, sometimes thinks of him as a "little bastard," but the boy has good intelligence and intentions. Such, in many variations, is the "disadvantaged" child, and he and his like now comprise one-third of all pupils in the nation...
...emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free man. Drury recalls the end of that caucus: "Suddenly the conference room door flew open. Again, there was that swift, mass rush toward it. Tall Tom Connally, with his long black coat, bow tie and picturesque long hair, lacking only a stovepipe hat to make the picture perfect, pushed his way out crying: 'Make way for liberty! Make way for liberty...
...Murder." Raised on an east-central Texas cotton farm, Connally went off to college in 1891, heard a speech by the Democratic idol of the day, William Jennings Bryan, and was so smitten that he copied the great man's bow-tie-and-frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...
Accepting the limits of action offered by only three characters aboard one small sloop, Director Roman Polanski sends his inquisitive camera whirring from port to starboard, bow to stern, up the mast. He shoots over shoulders and behind heads, composing frame after intimate frame through which his unholy trinity inevitably reveal themselves. Every twitch of an eyelid tells a small, stinging truth. Man, woman and boy abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself...