Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the gossipy birthday crowds strolling last week across the imperial gardens at Tokyo, a frayed, rustic-looking little man stopped, doffed his hat and made a low bow toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that his more modern-minded countrymen were staring at him. Deeply embarrassed, he checked himself in mid-bow, pretended that he was merely scratching his head, and put his hat back on. Then he shyly disappeared into the crowd...
Latino arsenals would get no more than the surplus material, originally worth $112,200,000, which the U.S. Army had rationed out to them at knockdown prices as low as 10? on the dollar after World War II. Of the total, the biggest amount ($20.3 million worth) went to Mexico, followed by Chile ($19.9 million), Brazil ($19.5 million) and Cuba ($15.6 million). Argentina got only $5.7 million...
...bureaucracy, their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...
Jean Barois, atheist, cowers in the runaway carriage. Another vehicle looms ahead; a crash is inevitable. A low cry bursts from his lips: "Hail, Mary, full of grace...
Freshman golfers went to Andover Saturday and won an easy 6 1/2 to 2 1/2 victory. Harvard's Mitch Rosenholtz was low man with a 68--one point lower than the varsity's best score this year...