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Word: kowtow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Senate to Vote on Change In Files Law Procedure | 12/13/1974 | See Source »

...hour with the top guy. That boils down to half an hour of talk. Is that enough to start this historic chain of events going that Nixon talks about so much? Maybe. But there is also the sense that the President has come to China to kowtow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Odyssey Day by Day | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...formal manners of international diplomacy must have come easily to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. A Burmese youth is taught to show respect for parents and elders by prostrating himself when he leaves their presence. And a son is never too old or too important to kowtow to his mother, as the 61-year-old statesman demonstrated last week at the Rangoon home of Daw Nan Thaung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1970 | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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