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Word: bowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks earlier when more than 200 students from Bowie State College, a dilapidated, predominantly Negro institution near Washington, came to Annapolis to petition for better facilities. The Governor not only refused to see them but had them arrested, ordering the school closed as well. He could not, he said, bow to pressure. Later he saw student leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE UNLIKELY NO. 2 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...four with, composed of Paul Hoffman, Steve Brooks, Fritz Hobbes, Scott Steketee, and Andy Larkin, lost to Penn and Vesper Saturday. The four without, composed of Art Evans, Curt Canning, Cleve Livingston, and Dave Higgins--the stern pair and the bow pair--finished on Saturday behind Vesper and the Eastern Development Clinic working out of M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew, Divided in Twain, Loses Twice at Nationals | 8/13/1968 | See Source »

...Governor is just not sophisticated enough to realize that (1) he's not savvy enough to be vice-president, (2) that the importance of ethnic factors has declined, and (3) that he's been rejected by the Nixon people and should bow out now instead of continuing to make a fool of himself," he added...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: John Volpe Speaks for Himself? | 8/6/1968 | See Source »

...cried for a week," he says. Nor, when he conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle-and to all but his enthusiastic admirers he remains the dim background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violinists: Second Fiddle, con Brio | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...moment of bravado spurred by another Sports Illustrated article which appeared just after the Los Angeles race and still leaned toward Penn, Dave Higgins '69, Bow man on the team said, "If we would have known there would be so much garbage about Four Inches (the margin of victory) we would have beaten them by a foot...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Crew Members Say They Thought More About Penn Than Olympics | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

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