Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conniving. Did he know that Roy Roberts, the supercharged managing editor of the Kansas City Star, had predicted that Eisenhower would bow to an honest draft...
Mater Advocata, the college literary magazine, opens its doors at 40 Bow Street this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock to introduce cinema star, Elizabeth Taylor to the Freshman class...
...Bow to Custom. In Valdosta, Ga., the watchful city council announced that henceforth liquor licenses would be required for any place of business selling...
...dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker" was not a public official but a shady individual who made a business of collecting rewards...
...Strings. Evita was only one issue between Perón and the Army. It would not be so easy to clear up the other: Perón's economic policies. Unlike other military Presidents in Argentine history, Perón has two strings to his bow...