Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hapless California officials who are now moving gingerly to bow to the will of the majority cannot, however, fail to hear the clash of other voices. Indeed, there was a tinge of class conflict in the campaign for Proposition 13, with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
...have taught him to appreciate the unnerving complexities of managing power. But his lack of experience still seriously fetters him. Participants in his rising attack on the Soviet and Cuban adventurism in Africa describe a man in a delicate state of doubt, where both courage and hesitation (with a bow for the line to old Political Novelist Allen Drury) show themselves...
...kayak carrying two 20-year-old men swept cleanly through Gate 16 as the pair jabbed their paddles into the water, trying to kill their momentum. Spotting the rock, they managed to go wide, but then their bow strayed and they were trapped in the eddy. Instantly, they pivoted broadside and swamped. On the shore, the crowd came to life, cheering them good-naturedly and whistling. Clinging to the capsized hull, the men were swept past the last four gates and across the finish line...
Varsity Eights--1. Harvard (bow, Paul Templeton, 2. Gordie Gardiner, 3. Tom Howes, 4. Warren Perkins, 5. Charlie Altekruse, 6. George Aitken, 7. George Hatch, stroke, Dave Boghossian, coxswain Jeff Rothstein), 6:01.4; 2. Penn, 6:10.7; 3. Navy...
...Crimson eight (bow Dave Lakhdir, Don Harting, Bill Chapman, Jeff Cooley, John Pickering, Karl Forsgaard, Jim Russell, Cunningham and cox Peter Cordeiro) matched the Tigers' 36-stroke cadence by settling at 35 strokes to set a torrid initial pace that left Yale embarrassingly behind...