Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Constitution forbids the Government to bestow titles of nobility, and Americans have always cultivated a certain national breeziness. Democracy and mobility have conspired with a traveling salesman's protocol ("Call me Joe-here's what I've got!") to efface even the "Mr." from the way that Americans address one another. All the same, the Carters' interminable "Jimmying" in a White House so recently thought of as Imperial has turned informality into standard policy...
...bestow honor and publicity upon a man who betrayed us and disgraced us before the entire world, a man who probably headed the most corrupt Administration the U.S. has ever...
...enlarged and the Russians have glimpsed international vistas - trade and technology, for example - that require accommodations with the rest of the world. A growing self-confidence has somewhat softened the Soviet truculence. Such factors may be the best hope for getting the Soviets to take up their pens and bestow their signatures at least on SALT'S limited contracts of nuclear forbearance. ∙Lana Morrow
...beepers' appeal must be partly credited to the status they bestow on the wearer. Salesmen visiting clients sometimes set theirs off manually, then announce they must leave to close a $10,000 deal. Says Chicago-based Airline Stewardess Sonja Lied: "When it goes off in a restaurant, people think I must be somebody very important." Still, the little boxes do have a knack for going off at the wrong moments: in church, at the symphony, in bed. Husbands, wives and lovers have been known to banish the gadgets from the bedroom. Could those little blurps and beeps...
Call Lily Tomlin the Crown Princess or whatever nice title you might want to bestow upon her, but "Long live the Queen!"-Lucille Ball...