Word: kowtows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five hours, and everyone was expected to contribute his opinions to the topic of the evening. Nadra Nader, now 77, a Lebanese immigrant who built up a moderately prosperous restaurant business, presided over these Kennedy-like sessions, and he urged the children to stand up for their rights. "Never kowtow," he taught?and they learned the lesson...
...entry. A public-opinion poll published recently by the Daily Express showed that over half (54%) the voting-age population opposed Market membership and that only 30% was for it. Wilson's cocky attitude was clearly designed to inform the voters-and the Six-that he will not kowtow for a Common Market berth. Moreover, Conservative Leader Ted Heath, long a supporter of membership, responded to the same national feeling by declaring: "It must be absolutely clear that the problems can be resolved before we have a negotiation...
...Party does succeed in getting the necessary number of signatures, the law will go to the Cambridge City Council for approval. "If they don't pass it--and they probably won't because they kowtow to the real estate interests--it goes before the city in a special election," Stoia said...
...While reading the article concerning the student riots in France [May 24], I began to realize how influential our generation is, whether it be at Columbia or the Sorbonne. It's frightening to think that we could have a whole nation kowtow to our demands. We could eventually find ourselves with a 25-year-old President who couldn't tell the difference between a resolution and a revolution...
...Trainer. Still, Hubert remained unabashed. He kept on talking, and criticizing, and introducing liberal bill after liberal bill. He suffered rebuke after rebuke, defeat after defeat. Finally, in despair, Humphrey took stock of himself. He had come to Washington to get things done. But his brashness, his refusal to kowtow to his Senate elders, were obviously rendering him ineffective. And late one night, in a moment of truth, Hubert Humphrey confided to a friend: "I'm going to stop kicking my foot against the wall...