Word: bowness
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Except for the initial chanting, our vegan delights (cheese and eggs were optional) were taken in complete silence. "Clappers" directed our actions, while we placed our bowls side by side, aligning our chop sticks 30 degrees (I kid not) from the table's edge--tips out. With a bow or a hand signal, we took the food sliding down the table. This had to be devoured in all haste, because slow eating is indulgence...
...unlike the fictional senator, Takano has won a reputation for being prim and proper. At Rialto Junior High, students and teachers alike made fun of his trademark bow tie and tasseled loafers...
...advice of his campaign staff, he's traded in the bow ties he wore teaching school for standard neck wear. And, as his few critics point out, Takano is not entirely a political novice, having won a seat on the board of trustees of Riverside Community College two years...
...face-off with George Bush and Ross Perot Thursday night, from which the Democrat emerged a clear winner. To some viewers, in fact, Bush seemed to adopt an almost elegiac tone, as if he knew he had lost and had decided to bow out with dignity -- though that may have been primarily a consequence of a format that brought the candidates in front of a quizzical audience demanding a sober discussion of issues...
WHAT IS LEFT FOR GEORGE BUSH NOW IS TO BOW OUT gracefully, an act of self- preservation to which he is well suited by temperament and breeding...