Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yevtushenko looked tired like a boxer in the ninth round as he launched himself in the passion of his second performance. His voice appealed to the heart and hove with boyhood sincerity. It reached, honestly I thought, for Mayakovsky, the great father of the Russian declamatory style who is evoked in the poem. But, unlike the Voice of Mayakovsky, Yevtushenko's carried no spiritual impact. In any performing career there is this danger: that the poet will come not to live for his own struggle and the larger implied struggle of mankind, but for the struggle's applause. The struggle...
...smiling. The ten women and two men of the jury were filing out of the Alameda County courtroom in Oakland, Calif. After six days of wrangling over the case, in which Newton was accused of killing a police officer, they were so firmly deadlocked that Judge Harold B. Hove declared a mistrial and dismissed them. "This shows that with at least one black person on the jury I can get a fair trial," Newton said. "A hung jury keeps me out of jail...
With such conflicting points of view, another stand-off seemed to be in the making when Rogers hove into view last week, the first Secretary of State to pay calls in the area since John Foster Dulles in 1953. In visiting Egypt, he also became the first Secretary of State to call on a nation with which the U.S. has no formal diplomatic relations; Nasser severed them in 1967. In Cairo, Rogers spent nearly seven hours talking with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Premier Mahmoud Fawzi. Afterward, he spent an hour re laxing at the palm-fringed pool...
...hurtled down the twisting mountain road at 50 m.p.h., he calmly took a wrench from his pocket and adjusted the seat of his bike. Whirling into the Grenoble stadium, he circled the track and still had time to complete a leisurely ceremonial lap before his closest competitor hove into view...
...three minutes and 38 seconds, the world anxiously waited to learn whether the astronauts had survived the final portion of their perilous voyage. Finally, the answer came. Responding to a call from one of the rescue planes, Apollo 13 replied: "O.K., Joe." A few seconds later, the descending spaceship hove into view of the TV cameras on the Iwo Jima's decks about four miles away. Under billowing white-and-orange main chutes, the spacecraft drifted slowly downward, headed for a splashdown just off target. At exactly 1:08 p.m., six days after its ill-starred journey began, Odyssey...