Word: bowe
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Washington announced last November that it would no longer oppose seating Peking in the United Nations so long as Taiwan retained its seat as well. Nixon, in his "State of the World" message, went out of his way to make a deep verbal bow to the "750 million talented and energetic" citizens of the "People's Republic of China." Last week the State Department ended the restrictions that have effectively prevented travel to China by U.S. citizens for 20 years. (The gesture is mostly symbolic at present because Peking has shown no willingness to issue visas to U.S. travelers...
...Perhaps politics is the art of putting daydreams in their place. Nothing serious can be done if you bow to daydreams. But how can anything great be done without them...
...also trimmed its corporate budget by over $15,000 by eliminating its advertising and promotion agency, closing its office at 993 Mass Ave., cutting rent commitments at the HSA central office at 2 Bow Street, and lowering wages for full-time staff members...
...dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...
That was one of the rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George...