Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the guest list consoled themselves with the fact that the 60 invited live wires included such sobersides as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Lydia gave the Snowdons an album containing pictures of all the guests as babies. For Tony alone there was a knee-length sweater festooned with bow ties...
...airy decor of the law office cried welcome to the shyest member of the accident-prone public, recalls Oklahoma City Lawyer Byrne A. Bow man. "An older woman greeted me with all the kindliness and warmth of an Irish policeman's mother." On the walls were about 60 framed photographs of checks for large amounts. They represented awards in damage suits and clearly implied that "there is nothing like money." On the waiting-room table was "a poop-sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts...
...Johnson does not believe that it is necessary to do without either-but he is certainly acting like a man who knows where the choice lies. Last week, after an intricate and mystery-shrouded confrontation that would do honor to Machiavelli, Johnson forced the $2.9 billion aluminum industry to bow to Government pressure and retreat from a price increase. It was the first such backdown since the steel industry's retreat before John Kennedy's wrath in 1962, and it marked the beginning of a new phase in Johnson's relations with U.S. business...
...shed. "Go ahead, number three," says the Chief. Number three swings a kitten high above his head and slams it at a log. The Chief, wearing a pair of rubber gloves, scissors a long smooth cut in the skin, "exposes the large, red-black liver and unwinds the immaculate bow els. Steam rises. He gropes in the abdominal cavity and plucks from it the tiny ruby heart...
Potter and Dyck trade slashing repartee in their office and seem as far removed from the medieval scholastics as the atomic bomb is from the cross bow, but they are faced with a special problem. "Theologians working in urban affairs and civil rights can justify their work on the grounds that the Bible says 'God so loved the world'--which means the whole world, everyone, not just good little Christians,'" Potter says. "But we have to work against Biblical injunctions like 'Be fruitful and multiply...