Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the University in the throes of its $250 million fund drive, many believe Bok will bestow an honorary on one of the University's major donors; speculation has centered on Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, who donated $5 million toward the construction of the new wing of the Fogg Museum or a member of the Bright family...
...each of Barragán's designs his public spaces achieve that degree of serenity which only flowing or still water can bestow. In Las Arboledas, developed as a residential community for horse lovers, he installed fountains, pools and a brimming watering trough as long as a lake, whose still surface reflects the thickly set eucalyptus trees. In another subdivision devoted to horsemen, Barragán converted two abandoned horse troughs into a heroically scaled fountain: a massive red earth stucco wall carries an aqueduct that pours water into the pool, all set off by a long pink stucco wall that makes...
...Elam, with what appears to be scrupulous impartiality, dismissed the charges as unproven and declared the accused innocent. The second case concerned the man who wore the grieved face, but Ms. Russell gives us no clue as to its meaning, unless she wishes us to infer that grief should bestow immunity from due process...
...Hampshire votes tomorrow, and half-a-hundred trends, meanings, insights and revelations will be gleaned from the wisdom that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded...
...while. They'd have to fall on their faces to get scores that are lower then anyone else's," he stated. And then in his cynical, croaking voice, never having looked at the rink during the Soviet performance, he predicted what score each of the nine judges would bestow on the unsmiling, cool and controlled Russian skaters...