Word: bowe
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...first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin, timidly and with trembling lips, to sing...
...traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged bow...
Malraux cannot, though all his life long he has wistfully acknowledged its power for others. "Certainly there is a higher faith: that proclaimed by all the village crosses," he wrote. "It is love, and peace is in it. I will never accept it; I will never bow to ask of it the peace to which my weakness beckons...
...fathoms off the starboard bow...
...gonna bus' your bow and split...