Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woodrow Wilson Award-one of the highest honors that Princeton can bestow on an alumnus-went this year to the youngest recipient in history. Because, said President Robert F. Goheen, from his "determined and persistent efforts we may look forward to more safety in our mines, highways and factories, less explosive accidents in our gas pipelines, cleaner meat and poultry on our tables, and broader public representation in the management of large public corporations," the $1,500 prize was awarded to 38-year-old Ralph Nader...
Others followed, few of them in the liberal mold of most existing Jewish journals. Berkeley produced the ultraprogressive Jewish Radical, Long Island University the conservative Dawn, Boston the polished, thoroughgoing genesis 2. The Jewish Liberation Journal, one of the few with a national circulation, began to bestow a nose-thumbing "Uncle Jake Award"; one in 1971 went to a Philadelphia Jewish group that gave a $50-a-plate dinner for then Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, the hard-line law-and-order man who is now the city's mayor. At Washington University in St. Louis, a periodical appeared under...
...could define it. It is our distrust of ourselves that leads us to look for leadership elsewhere; it's because we are alienated from the people closest to us that leadership must come from a distant figure. Hence, we continue to pick our glorified candidates, mortals upon whom we bestow an imagined "gift of grace...
...practice of simply walking past tellers who count them as for or against an amendment. Under the new provision. Congressmen will be recorded; and the people who elected them-if interested-will be able to learn how they voted. That it has taken the House until 1970 to bestow such a benefice on the electorate is a commentary in itself. Secret votes in committee session were also barred, and the salaries of Congressional aides must now be reported in full...
...Richard Nixon: "The greatest honor history can bestow [power] . . . the chance to help lead the world [power] . . . onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of [achievement...