Word: bowness
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...shift in Kremlin policy took place. By 1967 One Day had been banned and the theme of the Gulag in literature forbidden. Meanwhile, Solzhenitsyn had discovered an instructive fact about the Soviet authorities: "That strength and steadfastness are the only things these people fear; those who smile and bow to them they crush." He harried the enemy all the more. He issued protests, declarations and open letters to Politburo members, to the head of the KGB and to officials of the Writers' Union. His friends and supporters slipped copies to Western correspondents. The documents were published abroad, then broadcast...
...heavyweight oarswomen's aggressive style compensated for an occasional lack of smoothness. Co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer furnished strong leadership, plying the murky Charles from the two bow seats. The only other rower who will be lost to graduation is senior stroke Jenny Stone...
...more important when they come directly into conflict. The Quincy House Film Society should have been sensitive to the wishes and feelings of many within the Harvard community and never chosen to show the film. But once they had decided to ignore the outcry, they were correct in not bowing to a challenge from the state that can only be described as dangerous to First Amendment rights. Friday afternoon, after a judge properly denied a motion to enjoin the showing, officials of the district's attorney's office threatened to arrest Carl Stork and Nathan Hagen anyway if they went...
...registered freighter that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed down, some of it landing on the freighter's bow. A Greyhound bus carrying 23 people plummeted 140 ft. into the water, along with three cars and a pickup truck...
...Bow man Mark Worrell seconded the satisfaction: "It just was a great way to end my career...