Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best seller that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese in the South Pacific...
...bow our heads for a moment in silent prayer to mark the passing of a once-popular political cause--Harvard's divestment movement. Let us not hesitate to shed a few tears--but just a few--to show our sympathy for a movement whose self-righteous style could not generate enough popularity among students to achieve success or insure its survival...
When Senator Paul Simon of Illinois declared his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination last week, he became, at 58, the oldest of his party's seven contenders. As the author of eleven books, he is probably one of the most literate candidates. And as a fancier of bow ties, horn-rimmed glasses and what he calls the Democratic tradition of caring and daring and dreaming, he may be among the most unfashionable...
...Simon plans to stay that way. "Harry Truman wore a bow tie and horn- rimmed glasses," he told followers at Southern Illinois University, "and he didn't knuckle under to pressure to change his views as he fought for working and retired Americans." In one recent poll, Simon, first choice of 6% of Democrats, ranked third among the contenders...
Aboard the Stark, radar operators picked up the jet when it was about 200 miles to the north and tracked its southward course until it was virtually due west, well off the frigate's port bow. At that point, no one on the American ship had particular reason for alarm. As Brindel said later, Iraqi warplanes "commonly come down the gulf and pass within close distances." None of them had ever attacked a U.S. vessel. Even the Iranians, whom the Americans considered a greater threat, often flew their jets within missile range of U.S. warships but would back off after...