Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There will be liberation wars as long as imperialism exists, as long as colonialism exists. Wars of this kind are revolutionary wars. Such wars are not only justified, they are inevitable, for the colonialists do not freely bestow independence on the peoples. The peoples win freedom and independence only through struggle, including armed struggle...
Planned Parenthood. Although he is a registered Democrat, Seaborg has been politically passive, served both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower as an adviser. In 1959 the AEC gave him the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award-the highest honor the Government can bestow on an atomic scientist. Last January, four days before he took office as President, John Kennedy appointed Seaborg chairman of the AEC-the highest federal administrative post a U.S. scientist has ever attained...
...depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more perfect happiness (all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow -Jane Austen) (Jeticity or continued happiness consists not in having prospered, but in the process of prospering -Frank Thilly) BEATITUDE refers in this sense to the highest happiness, the felicity of the blessed (the years of loving sacrifice in scraping that boxful without letting Patty go short were amply crowned for John...
...lose it, or anything on it, is hell. Ippolita's mother tongue lashes the easygoing parish priest for not refusing Holy Communion to game poachers and fish stealers. When Ippolita becomes mistress of the San Lio domains, she visits the orphaned poor, "not of course to bestow money on them-for the poor use money unwisely-but to hand out bits of dried bread and cheese...
...Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift for him, plunged a knife hilt-deep in Shultz's shoulder. Seriously wounded, Shultz made his way back to civilization, returned the following year, one arm hanging useless, to bestow a shiny new knife on his assailant. The shamed tribe made Shultz a member...