Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those days, cellists were held in no high esteem. "Ordinarily, I had as soon hear a bee buzzing in a stone jug," wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1894. It was Casals' destiny to change all that, and he began early. At that time, student cellists were taught to bow with their arms close to their sides, even holding a book under their armpits as a method of instruction. Casals tried bowing more freely and also began experimenting with the fingering of the left hand, which in the old tradition used to zip up and down the finger board like...
...warning Cambridge and University students that whoever stole the sacred ibis shall be undone by a great curse," James M. Downey '74, Lampoon president, said yesterday. "Seven years of famine shall strike Mt. Auburn and Bow streets...
...quick show of strength-a rapid strike across the canal followed by a rapid withdrawal-as a way of breaking the longstanding deadlock over negotiations on the territory captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and still held by Israel. Given Israel's well-known stubborn refusal to bow to force, such a plan seemed to be hardly credible...
CRIMSON-SPECTATOR--Today's mystery contest. The Spectator's having trouble finding bodies. But even with three Harvard Square street people and a B&G man, the Spectator will bow...
...parish council did not protest when Charley's Place on Bow St., a block away from St. Paul's got its liquor license. Murray said Charley's Place offered to make a donation to St. Paul's just before the parish council discussed the case, but that he refused the money...