Word: bowness
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...nation's capital, an underground newspaper, the Washington Free Press, runs a biweekly agony column for the man who would avoid military service; with a mock bow to Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, director of Selective Service, the column is titled: "Dear General Marsbars-Advice to the Draft Resister." All in all, there are more than 100 counseling centers around the country. Milwaukee peace workers last month saw nothing at all odd in setting up a draft-guidance stand at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis-with a fudge salesman on one side and a kew-pie-doll barker...
...have the best job for a statue in the whole town," lamented Miss Liberty to Miss Diana in O. Henry's The Lady Higher Up. There she stood, Di ana, goddess of the hunt, poised with her bow and arrow high above Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden, a slim, exquisitely proportioned nymph shimmering in the sun. And in the years from 1892 to 1925, she brought to rambunctious New York just a little of the glory that was Greece...
...noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black velvet cocktail dress featuring a large black satin bow, with puffs of black lace as collar and cuffs. Last week both looked like sure winners among the 40 dresses, suits and coats that Ohrbach's brought back from Paris...
Tack, the course a boat is pursuing in terms of the direction from which the wind hits her bow (a boat is on starboard tack if the wind is blowing from the right-hand side, a port tack if from the left-hand side). To tack is to change course while sailing into the wind...
...making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes a 2,200-sq.-ft. nylon spinnaker that weighs barely 15.8 Ibs.-plus the most of Bus Mosbacher, but only bits of anybody else...