Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Breuer received many of the highest honors the profession can bestow in his half-century-long career, including the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1978. In May the G.F.I. Knoll International Corporation sponsored a conference in his honor...
...Soviet Union has been more cautious than the U.S. in handing out nuclear equipment, but has caused plenty of mischief by whipping up those who seek that equipment. Both the Soviets and Americans have continued to sell arms promiscuously; not one week after Iraq, the U.S. decided to bestow $2 billion worth of arms on Pakistan, from which the U.S. cut off supplies in 1979 because of its nuclear stirrings. (There is a fascinating theory abroad that a superabundance of conventional weapons quashes an appetite for nuclear weapons; it is not based in human nature.) Both the Soviets and Americans...
...costume drama, for the movie industry's spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will put on a spectacle that combines the solemnity of graduation day at West Point with the giddy naivete...
...offensive lineman, you have to believe. No individual statistics adorn the record books, few fans bestow catchy sobriquets on their favorite center, and even fewer focus on the line during any particular play. These are the men in the trenches, the men who get gouged and held and run over and stepped on, and, as a hollow reward, mud in their face. Seldom do their jerseys stay clean for a quarter...
...fact that the shah was in the United States to negotiate a multi-million dollar arms deal with the Pentagon; and the shah's remark that ignorance "leaves unutilized a huge human capital." In light of recent events, the shah's speech and the University's decision to bestow an honorary degree upon him seem as ironic as the explanation for his selection one corporation member offered in 1968: "The Corporation grants the honorary degrees with the idea in mind of bringing honor to Harvard," R. Keith Kane '22 said, "Thus we do not choose people who are controversial...