Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British men have long insisted that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped...
Iron Curtains Bestow Advantages, But So Does Freedom...
Queen Elizabeth II was pleased to bestow her royal blessings on some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial...
...with Panama, show the world the truly great meaning of liberty and justice by gracefully, stalwartly allowing the Panamanian flag to be raised in the Canal Zone, with all the dignity and solemnity a flag is worthy of; for is there a governmental treaty that can legally bestow upon a foreign government what rightfully belongs to the people-sovereignty...