Word: bequeathing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that social and national activities should be seen and explained in a wide historical context. For every individual's life is composed of elements, physical and spiritual, that he inherits from his ancestors. Moreover, for an individual to transcend his finiteness, he must relate himself to his heritage and bequeath it to his children...
Hill's goal is to bequeath an IAB jammed to the rafters with all the hoopla that is usually in abundance at collegiate donnybrooks to future Crimson quintets...
There will be no security in a world whose obsession with peace leads to appeasement. But neither will there be security in a world in which mock tough rhetoric and the accumulation of arms are the sole measure of competition. We can spare no effort to bequeath to future generations a peace more hopeful than an equilibrium of terror...
Even in death Hughes created more mysteries. Childless and twice divorced, he left no immediate family. He had often stated that he intended to bequeath his fortune to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Miami-headquartered organization that in the past decade has dispensed $8.8 million in research grants. In that way he would have avoided all federal estate taxes. But by week's end no one had produced his will. There is growing suspicion that the eccentric Hughes may have died before executing a legally binding document. If so, his fortune, estimated at a total of $2.3 billion...
Peterson said that Canaday was "very generous to give as much as he did," and said that it would be "rude" for him to have asked Canaday to bequeath any more for unexpected costs of the hall...