Word: benediction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winthrop goes on to lose the game by one, but all is not lost. At the Straus Cup dinner, Dawes receives the Brian Bolwell Award for lack of alertness and general mental lethargy, while Crimmins and Gostylo share the Benedict Arnold Award...
...plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts call for a different interpretation: Hiss is a modern day Benedict Arnold...
...Then, in September, she resigned from her $37,500-a-year job, complaining, insiders say, that she had grown weary of dealing with a board whose main devotion seemed not to banking but to a cause. The bank is now headed -temporarily-by a man: Executive Vice President Robert Benedict, 35, who last January was hired away from a branch manager's job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust...
Some 95% of the bank's personal loans have been made to women, although the bulk of commercial loan dollars has gone to "prime accounts" like Gulf & Western Industries-not primarily too small, female-run enterprises, as might have been expected. Says Benedict: "Our loan policy is no different from other banks." As a new institution, he adds, First Women's must be extra cautious in lending money because otherwise "every deadbeat in town will beat a path to our door...
...accounts of what happened there two centuries ago with what each place looks like today. In greenest Vermont. Stember will, for example, send the tourist past a white farmhouse down a rutted dirt road and bring him to a desolate cove on Lake Champlain that has changed little since. Benedict Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall of 1776. In Manhattan, Stember can startle a reader with the intelligence that a field where Washington's raggedy men knelt to fire is now the corner of Broadway and 116th...