Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little old white-haired man at the head table looked embarrassed, his eyebrows arched with a sort of "Ain't this a hell of a thing?" curve. He wore the old familiar black suit, black string tie knotted carelessly in a bow. His hair was neatly plastered down, his spectacles freshly shined...
...favorite indoor sports in those days were operating for hernia, breaking legs and thighs for bow legs, knock-knees, tying off hemorrhoids, opening psoas [loin] abscesses, subcutaneously operating for varicose veins, scarifying and chiseling osteomyelitis, traumatic amputations, trephinings [skull operations] for injuries, lifting breasts off for carcinoma and putting up fractures...
...Captain Moran laid his main batteries on the leading heavy ship . . . then he gave the order to fire. In a matter of seconds the first target was lit up. ... The Boise's guns hit her again & again for four minutes and she sank, going down by the bow with her screws still turning...
...ears the peacetime Sunday pealing brought nostalgia to temper the rejoicing. No clamor came from some 1,200 parish churches, either because their old grey stones had collapsed under bombs or because partial damage had left the bells insecure in the belfries. The famed bells of St. Mary-le-Bow in London's Cheapside were silent. Ten of the twelve had crashed from the 90-ft. belfry ceiling when the church was bombed (TIME, Sept...
...bill, the filibusterers do more than slight the democratic processes they were elected to direct. The foul blow they strike at Senate prestige joins that body's earlier self-inflicted black eyes to push it into the very depths of public esteem. More important, vital war measures must bow before their legislative sabotage; and now when every minute counts this sabotage is scheduled to last a month...