Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressing for many of his Democratic colleagues, who found his leadership weak and entirely too accommodating to the Administration's Viet Nam policies. Albert's political impotence became embarrassingly apparent when he failed to stop President Nixon, who, with the help of Democrat Wilbur Mills, tried to bestow on himself an item-by-item veto over spending programs authorized by Congress. Eight months ago, some talk of replacing Albert started circulating through the Capitol. His gentle ways and his unwillingness to assert his authority decisively left many Democrats wondering where they could find someone capable of more vigorous...
...with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt...
...pacific reluctance, Woodrow Wilson led the U.S. into the first World War. True, the Viet Nam conflict seems to be coming to an end and Nixon may even be able to announce a cease fire before too long. But it seems highly unlikely that the Nobel Committee would bestow its cherished prize on the man who is still overseeing the worst conflict since World...
...male and female scholars, (though I suspect the latter were a bit slighted). And I caught a few shocking bits of biased male scholarship, like "Emily Dickinson was extremely feminine in her aversion to intellectual abstraction and speculative argument." Sometimes the biographers are also annoying in their effort to bestow superlatives: the greatest writer or actress or one of the twelve greatest living women...
...bestow on me the certitude That You exist and are mindful...