Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once again the dreadsome time arrives, when large her shadows loom upon the boards, obliterating that refined discretion that nooses up the purse the year around (of charity, the ghost alone remains). Ring the curtain down, before the fatuous seduction makes her bow; down...
...exile, Pérez Jiménez lived in style. He bought a $400,000 Miami Beach mansion with swimming pool, cabanas and royal palms. He did a bit of loafing, broke out his bow and arrow for archery practice, gave a few parties, junketed off to Manhattan. Eventually, Venezuela asked the U.S. to arrest and extradite him on charges of complicity in murder-and embezzlement, based on evidence found in the suitcase. He got out on bail while his lawyers fought his extradition all the way up to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Last week, when that court turned...
...pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...With a bow to the classical unities, the entire action of Virginia Woolf takes place in a faculty couple's living room and runs continuously from 2 a.m. until dawn on a Sunday. (Someone must already have dubbed the play Long Night's Journey Into Day.) And with a bow to intellectualism, Albee has subtitled the three acts "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism...
...principle, and one of his strongest principles is that every one of his 70,000 workers should feel free to join a union but that none of them should be compelled to do so. Four times in the last decade Lockheed has taken costly strikes rather than bow to the demands of the International Association of Machinists for a "union shop," i.e., compulsory union membership. Last week, still clinging to principle, the nation's largest defense contractor took yet another strike which, for 36 hours, tied up its operations from Cape Canaveral to Honolulu...