Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...Pretty Penny," her 21-room house in suburban Nyack, N.Y., abounds in memories: a wood carving from Alex Woollcott, a clock from Richard Burton, a salad bowl from John Barrymore. "Bric-a-brac, that's what it all is," says Theatrical First Lady Helen Hayes, 63, who has already put up for sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died...
There are countless football fans who still insist that Jim Thorpe, or maybe Bronco Nagurski, was the best running back who ever lived. But in the Cotton Bowl last week, there was not a man on the Dallas Cowboys' defensive unit who was not convinced that the best back in history was crouching just across the line of scrimmage with No. 32 on his back...
...football begins at Yale today with coach John Pont making his debut in that hollowed-out mole hill they call the Bowl. Perhaps in contrast to the rest of the season, the afternoon will be a pleasant one for Bulldog-types: Connecticut never has beaten Yale and there is absolutely no reason why it should start doing so now. Other teams, no doubt, will be less reticent...
Third essential component of Buddhism is the vast body of monks and nuns called the sangha. In addition to celibacy and vegetarian nonviolence, monks practice poverty; traditionally the only possessions permitted are robes, a begging bowl for food, a needle, prayer beads, a razor (to shave the head once a fortnight), and a filter to remove bugs from the drinking water so as not to kill them...