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As president of the council which ran the Louvre, Frenchmen said, he had kowtowed to P�tain and the Nazis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The subject of the speech was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who at that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him for over 16 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The companies, said WPB, had kowtowed to favorite customers without regard for Government priority ratings, had shipped civilian steel while war orders waited.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had kowtowed as a matter of form by the command of the principal.

From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro

Ushers had kowtowed and the heads of fashionable women had nodded and smiled.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville