Word: bowness
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...hunger for the virile, vibrant call to faith that Graham and his friends represented. On and on they came, until as many as a million kids a week were attending such revival meetings around the country. The YFC rallies included blaring bands, quiz shows, horse acts, emcees with bow ties that lit up. As for Graham, so loud and fast was his delivery that journalists called him "God's Machine Gun." "Christian vaudeville," sniffed skeptics...
...Bow to stern last year, the boat was comprised of senior Chris McGarry, junior Field Ogden, senior jeremy Barnum, senior Nathan Hunt, Charlie Braun '93, captain John Roberts, Piotr Sobieszczyk '93, Truslow and coxswain John...
...live right next to The Bow and Arrow. Every night at closing, Harvard students stream out, swearing, shouting, and breaking bottles. Not once have I seen a cop give a single one of these River-trekkers a hard time...
Indeed, naemul has been around for as long as Korean business has. The practice, relatively simple on its face, has some elaborate rules. For instance, the envelope must always be sealed. The giver must always bow his head and present the envelope with both hands. And perhaps most importantly, the receiver must never ever look inside the envelope while still in the giver's presence...
...naemul is an outgrowth of the Confucian grounding upon which Korean society is based. Just ask any Korean or Korean-American about the New Year's Day custom of parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and other adults handing out envelopes of money to children, who respond with a long, ceremonious bow and a wish of good blessings. Because of this fundamental grounding, naemul in one form or another has penetrated almost every other aspect of Korean society...