Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factories of Long Island City across the river, the Council listened intently while the Congo's Justin Bomboko urged: "We should leave aside our rancor and our feelings; we should try together to find a solution." Tunisia's Mongi Slim closed the debate. With an apologetic bow to Italy's Egidio Ortona for what he was about to say, Slim brought up a 24-year-old ghost: the fateful day in 1936 when the League of Nations failed its biggest test, the day when Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie vainly appealed for help against Mussolini...
After a record twelve years as Governor-six two-year terms- Michigan's green-bow-tied G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had enough, and felt that voters might feel the same way. Last week Michigan's voters, in primary elections, chose a Republican and Democratic' candidate for Soapy's well-warmed chair...
...salts it was a mournful moment; since the first Vanguard fought against the Armada, twelve Royal Navy ships have borne the name. And Vanguard herself seemed to have an apprehension about where she was headed. In Portsmouth harbor she slipped away from four tugs, slewed around sharply and ran bow up on a mudbank, where she clung so stubbornly that it took an hour to get her off and on her way to the junk heap again...
...line-up on the speaker's stand as Jack Kennedy marched out to take his big bow last week was his sister Pat Lawford. And a proper distance behind her was her husband, Hollywood Star Peter Lawford (Never So Few, TV's Thin Man). For British-born "Pee-tah," as his friend, Mimic Sammy Davis Jr., calls him, such small-type billing on any other occasion might well be cause for foot-stomping temperament, but it must have comforted him to know that he was only the advance man for a new phalanx of Hollywood stars to whom...
...bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth," Churchill gave a fleeting smile of remembrance and made a gracious bow toward the speaker...