Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cavernous Peking Gymnasium a former diplomat named Yao Teng-shan last month was unceremoniously dragged before a gallery of 4,000 approving spectators, then forced to bow down in humble obeisance while his hands and arms were twisted behind his back. The leader of a Red Guard unit during the frenetic Cultural Revolution, which all but paralyzed China between 1966 and 1969, Yao was accused of mounting a raid on the Chinese foreign ministry, burning down the British chancellery, and plotting a personal assault on Premier Chou Enlai. Yao's reported sentence: ten years in prison...
...what Florence calls a "mass of weird confusion" in the Defense Department. The department, for example, refused to make public the list of military installations where liquor is sold to servicemen by the bottle. The Army once classified as a military secret a modern adaptation of the bow and arrow. The Air Force stamped secret on pictures of the interiors of transport planes that had been remodeled with plush lounges for the comfort of traveling brass. The Navy put a secrecy stamp on a report of attacks by sharks on seamen, even though they took place in New York Harbor...
This book cannot now be published in our homeland except in Samizdat* because of objections by censors that are inconceivable to the normal human mind and also because it would be necessary to write the word God in lowercase. I cannot bow down to such a humiliation...
Scoggins (rowing 5), LaBarre (3), and Baker (2) will join stroke Bill Hobbs, Dave Mitchell (7), Dave Sawyier (6), Brian Johnson (4), and Bill Mahoney (bow). Tom Tiffany is the coxswain...
...actor being in repertory but where in one day?one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very wearing. Your transmission begins to wear out from all that shifting...