Word: bowness
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MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling...
...Philadelphia, Annenberg was widely feared as a man not to cross. In London, kept waiting for ten minutes by a British Cabinet Minister, he fumed: "I won't trust that man again." But he has displayed an ability to bow to the wishes of others. When his threat to remove the huge American eagle that adorns the embassy's façade stirred protests from his staff, he relented. "I won't bother him," he said, "if he doesn't bother...
Abbic Hoffman, wearing his almost angelic smile, wandered freely in and out of the room. His hair style reminded me of the line from Hair, "And he wears his hair tied in a small bow at the back...
...Voyce admits that there are still a few kinks in his craft-the "really shoddy" mufflers, a laminated-wood prop that deteriorates rapidly in damp climates, a carburetor that gums up in salt water, and the vehicle's tendency to eject its driver over the bow when it is stopped quickly in water. But he expects to have the troubles ironed out in time to manufacture 10,000 Spectras in 1970 and claims already to have orders for 8,000. "People literally get freaked out by the Spectra," he says, and prophesies that one day "the Hovercraft will...
...treat Patient as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four." He will, for example, "refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps,' " and will inquire of a constipated lady patient: "How are the bow-wows this morning?" An effective way to reduce such nonsense before it starts, Potter advised, is to cast doubt on the doctor's professionalism: "I am, I suppose, right in calling you Doctor...