Word: kneels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes over English cherry brandy and again over Chinese tea, the mandarins insisted, the ambassador resisted. Amherst offered to kneel on one knee. Not enough. He would even kiss the Emperor's hand, as was the custom in England. The mandarins shook their heads in horror over what they plainly thought a disgusting custom...
...peasants (like "putrefying garlic on a much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves, was not worth any more appeasement...
...favorite Frankfurt party icebreaker in which a man & woman kneel face to face. One crumples a sheet of Kleenex into a ball and holds it between his (or her) chin and shoulder and attempts to transfer it without the use of hands to a corresponding position on a player of the opposite sex. Only ironical rule in this organized nuzzling: participating couples must not be man & wife...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism, the Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the Clock Fight...