Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward week's end she had yet to talk with Kaunda officially. "If the British government should change its policy tomorrow," said Kaunda, "I would shake the hand of Harold Wilson. If it does not, he must expect criticism." There was no evidence whatever that Wilson would bow to Kaunda's demands. Since economic sanctions against Rhodesia have failed, Britain has shifted its position and now seems prepared to negotiate a settlement that will leave Smith firmly in power...
...Praphas Charusathien, 54, the jowly and jolly commander in chief of the army, Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and most visibly active and outspoken man in government. Given to bow ties and dark glasses, Praphas bridles when his extensive business dealings are mentioned. Since he controls both army and police forces, gossips whisper that Praphas (pronounced Pra-pat) could conceivably oust Thanom. But that would likely produce an ugly family quarrel: Praphas' daughter is married to Thanom's son, and in fact the parents are close friends...
Memoirists are the musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
...President George W. Beadle avoided a Berkeley-type slugging match with the students. He and his staff stayed away from the building during the 36-hour occupation. Instead he told the demonstrators that "Those who attempt to coerce in one direction today should realize that a university which bows to this kind of force will bow to other kinds of coercion tomorrow." Economics Professor Gerhard Meyer, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, told the squatters: "This is coercion, morally wrong and self-defeating." Faced with the Beadle tactic of avoiding battle but refusing to surrender, the students, with exams...
Conditions on Lake Quinsigamond were only slightly breezy, with a headwind quartering off the port bow of the shells as they raced up the 2,000-meter course. All six boats were well-bunched off the starting line in the varsity heavy final, and Harvard, at 34-35 strokes per minute, snapped an early Cornell lead to go out ahead by a precariously small margin...