Word: bowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slacks and a bow tie. Don't do it, please. Casual and elegant makes a poor mixture...
Much of Farrakhan's power comes from the street effectiveness of the Nation of Islam's bow-tied young soldiers. They can be contemptuous of civil liberties -- a former Washington chief of police says, "They want to operate outside the law" -- but they are undeniably effective at chasing away crime and drugs in communities where nothing else works. Charles Manso has sold ice cream and sundries for 20 years from a battered white truck on a desolate corner in northeast Washington, an area without grocery stores, barbershops, even Laundromats. "There used to be shootings all the time," he says. "Drug...
...choirboy at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, he ran relays in track and made his way to Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina, which he attended for two years. But his real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar and, after leaving college, appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and in nightclubs as Calypso Gene or the Charmer. He has said that after hearing Elijah Muhammad speak in 1955, he had a dream...
...addition to "manhood training" classes to learn the history of the black man, the code of discipline of the Nation of Islam and rules about how to behave and dress (coat and bow tie at virtually all times), men must prove themselves by selling the sect's newspaper, the Final Call, on street corners. Their sales totals directly affect their standing. In some cities, recruits still sell the group's trademark bean pies...
...Morihiro Hosokawa ended with sour expressions -- for % eight months the two nations have failed to agree on how to measure progress in Japan's efforts to open its markets. But given the tradition of smoothing over differences at the close of most summits, the unvarnished frankness at the final bow of this one was something new. At a joint press appearance, with Hosokawa at his side, Clinton let loose. Japan's markets "still remain less open to imports than any other" major nation's, he said. Japan still "screens out many of our products, even our most competitive products." Clinton...