Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they apparently even knew we were there. In the flame and thunder it was impossible to know completely what was going on, but we knew that five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back, their shells raising geysers less than a hundred yards from our bow...
...Helena. We had kindled several targets, which were burning in the night like small, innocent bonfires along the Kolombangara coast. One hour after the firing started there were no Jap targets left. It was then that we picked up, in the beam of a searchlight, a ship's bow protruding from the quiet sea. The admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam, and the admiral kept asking: "Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge." Finally came the destroyer's voice: "I am sorry...
...officers of the Fly were rather unhappy about it, but taxes is taxes, and Navy wives wouldn't have gone for the atmosphere. Now the traffic accident as Bow and Mt. Auburn, familiarly known as the Poon, will bask in sunlight, and the view from the Sanctum will be brightened by a "pleasant garden spot, surrounded by a hedge," 50 is still exclusive...
This week the great Whirlaway heard his last bugle call. At Chicago's Washington Park, history's greatest money-winning thoroughbred ($561,161) ambled on to the track, made a farewell bow, then started back to the Kentucky blue grass where, five years ago, he was born...
Most theories presuppose that primitive man laboriously developed language from what were at first mere random sounds. According to the "ding-dongists," man's first words were based on the characteristic sounds made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic...