Word: bows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battered Nevada (its band having finished The Star-Spangled Banner) managed to get up enough steam to proceed majestically out into the channel to the sea. Despite a gaping hole in its bow, its guns were firing, and its torn flag flew high. As it edged past the burning Arizona, three of that doomed ship's crewmen swam over, clambered aboard and manned a starboard...
Tipping the grade scale, therefore, shouldn't be our first consideration. Undergraduates should be exempt from the academic theory feeding frenzy. While we are learning to write papers, we should make an attempt to say what we think first. Academic honesty should be our only priority. Let us not bow to jargon-jockeying this early in our lives...
...they will vote their conscience. She is actively lobbying the '88 delegates, and she is chartering state affiliates to ensure that pro-choice Republicans challenge pro-lifers when the '92 delegates are selected. Insisting that "no one wants to hurt the President," Stone's suggested platform language would gracefully bow to Bush's antiabortion views while stating clearly that dissent from the President's stance can be tolerated by the party without recrimination. Sununu, naturally, is against watering down the pro-life provisions. In mid- September he stated that the President will accept "no change" in the platform...
...necessarily. Yes, Miyazawa is extraordinarily fond of America and has an elegant command of English. But he is also a tough negotiator with firmly held convictions. He speaks his mind. Unlike many of his less sophisticated predecessors, he will not bow silently to pressure from Washington. "He is ready to be critical of unreasonable demands," says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo. As Trade Minister in 1970, Miyazawa broke off talks over a textile agreement because he felt the U.S. was demanding too much. His successor completed the deal -- by giving Washington exactly what it wanted...
Finally, Vellucci deserves your vote today because he hates that semi-secret Bow St. social club, the Harvard Lampoon (He has said its castle resembles a urinal), and because he loves trees. Vellucci has planted trees all over Cambridge, and was instrumental in replacing the Liberty Elm brutally murdered last year by vegicidal 'Poonsters...