Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lewis, former Secretary of Transportation and a pragmatic tactician in the Baker mold. Conservative alternative: Secretary of the Interior William Clark, an old Reagan crony who served as chief of staff in California and, not very successfully, as National Security Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice. Leading candidates: Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, a non-ideologue, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, yet another pal from California days and a reflexive hardliner...
...response Kohl noted that he, like most of his countrymen, had been too young to fight in World War II. But, he continued, "I bow to you in grief at the suffering inflicted on the Jewish people by the Germans... We live with our history; we cannot and do not intend to shun this grave legacy...
...Wilder, he imposed marathon revisions and usually ended by demanding a co-author credit and half the royalties. When he directed Arthur Miller's The Crucible in 1953, he responded to an out-of-town audience's calls for the author by going onstage and taking a bow...
...crew member, a tipple on the town led to chills and thrills. After unwinding at the Tee-Pee Lounge and Chintz's Bar on a Saturday night, Hallinan slipped on a jetty as he was boarding the Ann Blessey and fell into the icy water near the bow. It took ten minutes for the crew to fish him out. "That was the biggest excitement we've had," said Wills. "Leo joined the Polar Bear Club...
With these experts' connivance, Watson adopted a new identity based on false documents and stationery filched from New York City's Metropolitan Museum. To help people in the art world remember him easily, Watson flaunted a quirky bow tie and cultivated a limp by wearing an excruciatingly tight pair of Italian shoes...