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Word: bowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the combined Galveston luncheon clubs: "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison . . . But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." In New York he declared: "Possibly we have become too regardful of things that we call luxuries . . . Maybe we like caviar and champagne when we ought to be out working on beer and hot dogs. Whatever it is, the thing that has happened to us is of the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Eisenhower's Stand | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...made none. But both were aware that they faced a double problem: Eisenhower had to be convinced that the Republicans really wanted him, and Republican politicians had to be convinced that Ike wanted their support. In the old comic strip, Alphonse & Gaston often bumped heads as they tried to bow each other through a door. The Eisenhower campaign is in danger of a similar impasse. To get Ike and the Republican politicians through the door together will be a difficult, tricky job of organization. The man charged with this job is a personable, shrewd aristocrat from Massachusetts, Senator Henry Cabot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Harnessing a Wave | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...moonfaced youngster marched onstage in Carnegie Hall with the self-assurance of a veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Prodigy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Jaakko Mikkola is now in his 31st and last year of coaching track at the College. Like any coach, he'd like nothing better than to bow out with an undefeated season. Unlike most most coaches, it appears that he has a good chance of attaining this goal...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

Here is as versatile a gadget as we've seen since the invention of the flashlight. Officially termed by the BICYCLE EXCHANGE at 3 Bow Street, a Berec Handlamp and Cyclechamp. It hooks on to almost anything. It clips to a belt, clamps on a bike handle, suspends from any bar, sits on the ground, and can even be carried in the hand. It takes two regular flashlight batteries, and sells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

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