Word: bowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...glorious triumph, and finally as a reassuring symbol of the presidency itself, Reagan became the conservative constant through two decades of Republican resurgence. This Monday in New Orleans, the era's most successful Republican politician will take the podium to thunderous applause and, as part of his final bow, urge Americans to continue his legacy by supporting George Herbert Walker Bush, the dutiful deputy who has been tapped as his heir...
...awkward title says it all: the platform tries to meld the "competence" of Michael Dukakis with the "hope" conveyed by Jesse Jackson. "Restoration" can be seen as a small bow to the platform's author, Theodore Sorensen, who was John Kennedy's speechwriter. Sorensen's secret: exhausting run-on sentences that cleverly mask meaning with their painful paucity of verbs...
...should not bow to the calls of Iranian radicals that it depart from the Gulf with its tail between its legs and leave the two parties to slug it out by themselves just because of this incident. That would only guarantee an Iranian victory while a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war, with victory for neither side, should be the aim of any U.S. policy in the Gulf. If nothing else, the current U.S. presence has restrained and isolated Iran, keeping that fundamentalist regime from achieving the status of a regional superpower...
Native wildflowers are also resistant to coaching and threats. Actress Helen Hayes, a dirty-fingernails, hands-and-knees gardener, recently decided to sow wildflowers like those she remembers seeing from train windows as she toured the country with her plays. "They won't bow to one's wishes," she says with grudging admiration. "They don't want to be tamed. That must be the reason these darling, lovely little things won't cooperate...
...political questions are turned aside for fear of reprisals back home. Five minutes before curtain, a hush falls over the backstage. They gather for a nightly ritual, heads bent in prayer. Soft voices rise and fall in a Zulu chant. In the corridor, band members stop short and bow their heads. The doorman, a flush-cheeked Irishman, respectfully removes his cap. "I've never seen this kind of dedication," he murmurs...