Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed him. In his announcement, he lined himself squarely with "those great classes of graduates-largely from the 1920's and 1930's." and prepared to bow out with them...
...impressions of summer days and the sparkling glint of light on the river's water. Later, her voice grew mellow and wise as she sang "the colors of my father's dreams faded" and the audience could look back with her in knowing retrospect, as Gene Taylor drew his bow sadly across the strings of his bass, and Miss Collins finalized her memories, skillfully plucking out tender notes on her 12-string guitar...
MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling...
...Philadelphia, Annenberg was widely feared as a man not to cross. In London, kept waiting for ten minutes by a British Cabinet Minister, he fumed: "I won't trust that man again." But he has displayed an ability to bow to the wishes of others. When his threat to remove the huge American eagle that adorns the embassy's façade stirred protests from his staff, he relented. "I won't bother him," he said, "if he doesn't bother...
Abbic Hoffman, wearing his almost angelic smile, wandered freely in and out of the room. His hair style reminded me of the line from Hair, "And he wears his hair tied in a small bow at the back...