Word: bows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TURBINE-POWERED SHIP is whopping success so far, reports Maritime Administration. In five-day sea trials, first war-weary Liberty Ship fitted with experimental gas-turbine power plant and longer bow clipped along at 18 knots, almost double original, steam-powered speed...
...week's end the President participated in ceremonies on the White House south lawn marking a three-cent stamp issue honoring labor. For the union men present, headed by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, he had a bow and a reminder: "It is sometimes well to pause for a moment and to think how far-under this system of freedom, with intelligent work-ingmen-how far we have come, with 66 million people employed at the highest real wages that have been experienced in the world's history. In so doing they have produced the strongest economy...
...turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine ripped into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang of the long trousers: "The wrong sort of braces . . . assuming he would wear nothing so inexcusable...
...Peppercorn for Rent. Vanderlyn cheerfully produced another string to his bow; he had brought back detailed perspective drawings of Versailles, which he now proposed to work up into an oil panorama. His admirers were so taken by this idea that they raised money to build Manhattan's first art museum building, specifically to house the painting. It was a neoclassic, circular structure, a few steps from City Hall, on ground rented from the city for one peppercorn a year. Vanderlyn's panorama occupied the whole upstairs, his smaller canvases, which he thought finer, were downstairs. Entrance fees were...
...That Me?" The years passed and the same old heights seemed harder to reach, but Dotty Tyler kept jumping. She made her bow to progress by learning the Western roll. But when she got to Helsinki for the 1952 Olympic Games, a pulled abdominal muscle kept her down to 5 ft. 2½ in. and seventh place. Still she jumped−in addition to her old jobs as full-time housewife and part-time secretary. Last year she studied ballet on the theory that it would help. ("It was lots of fun. They wanted us to sing...