1. To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines. 2. To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head. 3. To bend or incline towards, in condescension. Bow down thine ear to the poor. Eccles. 4. To depress; to crush; to subdue.
December 03, 1999|ELAINE WOO | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Gene Rayburn, the actor and veteran quiz show host best known for emceeing television's The Match Game, has died. He was 81. Rayburn died Monday at his home near Gloucester, Mass., of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Lynne Rayburn.
By ERIC PACE. Dixy Lee Ray, former chairwoman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Governor of Washington, died yesterday at her home on Fox Island, near Tacoma. She was 79. She had suffered for some months from a severe bronchial condition, said a friend, Lou Guzzo, who is a television commentator.