Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Novak elude the columning category they seem naturally to fit into-that of reporters rather than commentators. Reporters too, of course, have their obligations (a college thesis could be written about how Woodward and Bernstein, or Theodore H. White, reveal their most useful sources by the praise they bestow upon them in passing). Despite good Washington connections, Evans/Novak usually give a one-legged performance, lacking balance. They early developed an animus toward Jimmy Carter and reported so many hidden obstacles in his way that if Carter had had to overcome them all, his nomination would have been even more...
...shame that TIME should feel it necessary to bestow upon its readers yet another display of Bicentennial baloney. What is even more distasteful is its form-red, white and blue cheesecake...
...Teamsters, multiple salaries are common. One Kansas City, Mo., Teamster chief holds ten posts, including "general organizer," a title Fitzsimmons can bestow at will. It brings few duties but carries a $30,000 salary...
...that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially in a season that celebrates God's good will toward man, Mother Teresa's own loving luminosity prompts many to bestow on her a title that she would surely reject. She is, they say, a living saint...
...beginning to wonder about the intellect of TIME'S editors when they are so quick to put a mush-mouthed, off-keyed nothing like Bruce Springsteen on their cover and yet take five years to bestow that honor on the one who deserves it the most-Elton John...