Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized a following, the Nationalist Party, with about 1,000 members. Nothing he undertook succeeded; his plans for a civil disobedience campaign and the enrolling of a liberation army died for lack of support. Still Albizu, arrogant but a little absurd with his full mustache, uncontrolled hair and black bow tie, preached venomous hate for the U.S.; in the early '30s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu...
...occasion he personally penned an editorial published in all his newspapers rebuking the CRIMSON for an ungallant reception accorded Marjorie Woodward, a Hollywood starlet being entertained by the Bow Street...
...helmsman of Goose (from Oyster Bay, N.Y.) fell sick. U.S. Captain Herman Whiton had to reshuffle his whole lineup. But to everyone's surprise the U.S. took the next two races, evened the match. The deciding race was marked by the most seamanlike maneuver of the series. Running bow & bow with Britain's Johan, the American Llanoria suddenly luffed into the wind, forcing Johan to follow suit. The maneuver temporarily becalmed both boats in the lee of a passing ocean liner. Captain Whiton's Goose took the opening and slipped ahead to finish first. Shaking off Johan...
...University will not go unrepresented in the double scull event, with law student Pete Heller '48 rowing stroke and Gordon Abbott '50 pulling the bow...
...Birds on inaccessible islands are tame and friendly: albatrosses have been known to bow politely to human visitors...