Word: bowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buried in paddy trails; coconuts filled with explosives hang in jungle trees. A nylon trip wire can plunge a man onto a bed of iron spikes-or needle-sharp bamboo stakes smeared with excrement that will poison his blood. Stepping on an invisible thread can trigger a cross-bow's arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged to a battery of exploding spikes, the clothes hanging on a peasant's wall...
...Violin Concerto with elegance and grace, a tone pure and silken, and a technique that was a marvel of dizzy ing leaps and lightning runs. During the long ovation that followed, Conductor Leonard Bernstein embraced Nadien, and the violinist motioned for the orchestra to stand up and take a bow. Instead, they stayed seated and ap plauded and tapped their bows against their music stands...
...Creeden decides to unwind his arm again today, then more old records and Bucknell should bow, by about...
...means to saw, »»»>»»» to rub, ^ to use a mallet, and f f f to tap the chair with the bow. Sometimes he even uses plain old-fashioned musical notes...
...Senator Robert Griffin alighted from a plane at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport last week, the crowds ignored him. By contrast, Griffin's Democratic opponent for the Senate, wealthy G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a longtime (1949-60) former Governor of Michigan, has made his name, face and green bow tie familiar fixtures from Aetna to Zeeland. Despite the recognition gap, the Detroit News last week published a poll showing that Griffin has established a splinter-slim, 51% -to-48% lead over Williams...