Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HISTORY and the men who record it have always intimidated Lyndon B. Johnson. His book, The Vantage Point, is a nervous bow to the Harvard faculty, and thus not very Johnsonian. The next one should be for us; a thunderous account of this incredible man's 40 years in or near the center of power. That book is bottled up in him, and the problem is getting it out in its pure state...
...eventually drove them into the remote hills of Kiangsi. From that day to this, the two have been at war. In 1936, when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He was finally released at the behest of a young Communist, Chou Enlai...
...government may designate the Tasaday forest home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
Most other major public networks in the free world are guaranteed their funding and are therefore more independent of their governments than PBS so far has been. If its bureaucratized and politicized management continues to bow meekly to pressure, as it did last week, PBS might as well give up its bold new logo and perhaps adopt something like a plucked version of the old NBC peacock. That is, a chicken...
...left holding the champagne bottle when the ship began slipping down the ways too soon. "There were supposed to be three whistles," she said. "There were only two, and my goodness, the ship was going down into the water." Recovering quickly, the startled First Lady lunged toward the receding bow, smashed the bottle against it, and was splattered with champagne for her trouble. "She did it right," said the pleased Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. "Some sponsors miss...