Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
...Bronx, Thomas Cunningham, charged with shooting steadily through a neighbor's window at a can of corned beef, explained that the neighbor had been eying his daughter. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to police why he had been shooting at his roommate with a bow and arrow: "I am interested in archery...
They slept on the stone floor, ate rice and stringy meat, had to bow to Jap soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast...
Natives who failed to bow properly were beaten with rifle butts. Hungry...
Attention! Adjust bow-ties! Two! "Off we go into the Vendome yonder. . ." It's this Saturday evening, men, and hundreds of beautiful women, so finish off that nasty old report and let's hobnob with Boston's bellest belles. And watch those married men go to town! BUT, that's somenone else's assignment...