Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand but left again without harming the girl. Soon water began to flow into the cabin, and when it reached her bunk, Terry Jo climbed up to the cockpit again. There was no sign of her father, sister, or Mary Harvey. Captain Harvey came back from the bow, and "I asked him if the boat was sinking and he said, 'yes,' and he went up forward to do something, and he came back and he said, 'Is the dinghy loose?' and I said, 'I don't know,' and he jumped in after...
...project dear to the heart of his U.S. chief, Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Snapped Sir Hugh: "I don't believe we should extend this nuclear weapon. Don't let every Tom, Dick and Harry go mucking about with the bloody thing." Then, in a sort of bow to the boss, he came to an abrupt halt: "I am speaking here as Hugh Stockwell. I may be Mr. Hugh Stockwell after this...
...musicale was a wondrous success. With ears turned intently to the aged master, the critics and music lovers agreed that Casals had never made better music, and that his octogenarian bow arm was as firm as ever. At concert's end, the audience arose in a standing ovation. The President gave Casals an abrazo and summoned Alice Longworth to the front of the room for a bow. She had heard the great cellist in his last White House performance, 57 years before, when he played for her President father Theodore Roosevelt...
...Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, onetime Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams has made three trips to Africa, logged 75,000 miles pumping hands and poking into problems (and once getting poked on the jaw himself by an indignant white African). Last week Williams was up to his bow tie in Baedekers preparing for a fourth trip, when he suddenly canceled the safari because of "urgent business at home," In fact, the cancellation came on orders from State Secretary Dean Rusk, who is concerned by over-the-budget spending at Foggy Bottom, has ordered 500 positions eliminated as they...
...junta is doggedly unsentimental. Engagement rings and dowries are out. Funeral services may no longer be pompous, lengthy and expensive as in the past, but should be brisk, cheap and austere; among other things, the custom of bowing three times before the funeral altar will be streamlined down to a single bow. Newly forbidden is the use of wooden, disposable chopsticks in Korea's 11,676 restaurants and teahouses-the government wants to conserve the country's dwindling timber reserves; instead, the use and reuse of plastic chopsticks is urged...