Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Native wildflowers are also resistant to coaching and threats. Actress Helen Hayes, a dirty-fingernails, hands-and-knees gardener, recently decided to sow wildflowers like those she remembers seeing from train windows as she toured the country with her plays. "They won't bow to one's wishes," she says with grudging admiration. "They don't want to be tamed. That must be the reason these darling, lovely little things won't cooperate...
...political questions are turned aside for fear of reprisals back home. Five minutes before curtain, a hush falls over the backstage. They gather for a nightly ritual, heads bent in prayer. Soft voices rise and fall in a Zulu chant. In the corridor, band members stop short and bow their heads. The doorman, a flush-cheeked Irishman, respectfully removes his cap. "I've never seen this kind of dedication," he murmurs...
...Black-and-White boat, which will consist of bow Jillian Buriak, two-seat Martha Rogers, three Joanna Bench, four Vicky Keane, five Betsy McCagg, six Mary McCagg, seven Karen Weltchek, stroke Juliet Thompson, and cox Leigh Weiss, will race first today, followed by the junior varsity eights, the novice fours and the novice eights...
DESCRIPTION: United States imports, exports, trade deficit, April 1987-March 1988; color illustration of Uncle Sam looking over bow of ship...
Rowing for the Crimson will be from bow to stern, Dan Grout, John Bernstein, second-year Captain Steve Wayne, Pete Sharis, Donald Fawcett, Jack Rusher, Phil Schuller, John Amory, and coxswain James Crick...