Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a tacit bow to the effectiveness of Saigon's counterinsurgency forces in urban areas, the document admits that "our infrastructure has been lost completely. We were seduced by the illusion of peace and became inactive against enemy tricks. We have lost a certain amount of land and population in the Mekong Delta"-estimated by Saigon to be about 20% of the land held by the Communists at the time of the Paris accords...
...space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that the intimacies never shock -except perhaps with the revelation of the extreme possibilities of what a dancer's body can be made...
...better historian than other men, Jules Michelet once observed, it is because I have a larger table. The French historian's graceful bow to the supremacy of broad and easily retrievable research over insight has now been carried to devastating extremes by the authors of this provocative book. Fogel, 47, is a professor of economics and history at the universities of Chicago and Rochester. Engerman, 38, is professor of economics and history at Rochester. Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history...
...gradually out of Harvard's financial picture in an effort to lessen his work load as he ages toward retirement. Bennett announced last year that he was retiring as treasurer to devote more time to his State Street Management and Research Co. Later he said that State Street would bow out as Harvard's portfolio this July...
...varsity four of coxswain Amy Sacks, stroke Barbara Norris, three Anne Robinson, two Robin Lothrop, and bow Sarah Kuhn suffered a serious setback when Kuhn sprained her back in practice. As a result, the four has had only light workouts the past few days, but Radcliffe coach John Baker expects Kuhn to be ready for the weekend races...