Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week the ERP threatened to kill Otis Elevator Co. executives unless the company would agree to "donate" $500,000 to a children's hospital and other institutions, and increase the wages of its Argentine employees by 100%. At week's end, Otis had not decided whether to bow to the threat, as did Ford of Argentina (TIME, June 4). The company did, however, evacuate all its executives and their families. The mood of those remaining behind in Argentina's international community was grim. Said one American businessman: "We've been getting threatening calls for months...
...face ever hidden, approached and tugged my pajama sleeve, pulling me toward the open Lovecraft tomb. Forgetting danger, cleanliness and reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth's bow els. My whole being choked on the stinking confluence of incense fumes, and a cancerous terror clutched my chest with strangling tendrils. Penultimately we reached a vast vaulted room lit with a gangrenous green glare from an unknown source, while all around pulsed and crashed a monstrous noise not unlike...
...parental interference or, as her father Lee (a freelance writer in Van Nuys, Calif.) calls it, "maverick management." When Dylana (named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas) was eight and learning the Mendelssohn concerto, her teacher ruled that she was not ready to master the ricochet technique (bouncing the bow on the strings) required in the work. Her parents decided otherwise. "Dylana knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher who takes care of Dylana, Brother Kevan, 14, Sister Vicky, 13, and Brother Ivan, 10, who is coming...
...fours, Radcliffe will enter Judy Levine at bow, Kathy Barbash at two, Debbie Harrington at three and Dottie Kent at stroke. Sally Parker will cox the four...
...nationals Baker will stick with the same lineup that rowed for Radcliffe in the Sprints, although he hasn't "yet decided on a seating arrangement." In the eights he will put Charlotte Crane at stroke, Anne Robinson at bow, Ginny Smith at two, Connie Cervilla at three, Kathy Sullivan at four, Jenny Getsinger at five, Lillian Hunt at six, Allison Hill at seven and Nancy Hadley...