Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child-rearing fears as well. I think my mother would like me to have children and I am aware that with a child comes responsibilities But having experienced an alternative family structure, I know that a child does not judge with an artificial set of values. If I bestow love on her, she will be happy...
...deal is cut, the plans laid out. All that's left is a title to bestow on Secretary of State JAMES BAKER when he joins the Bush campaign this week. Bush will end months of speculation surrounding the Baker move with an announcement meant to kick off the Republican Convention. The Bush troops hope to ignite the party faithful who have been looking for the Secretary to revive the lagging campaign. Baker's arrival could not be sooner: the G.O.P. has concluded that if it is to win in November, it absolutely must win at least two of three...
...that she has a "unique horrible agenda" stemming from her family back ground--a past that fuels her sometimes irrational ambitions to succeed on her own. Sherry feels that success as a reporter, in breaking this one story, is one thing that her rich and powerful father can't bestow upon...
NOBODY WILL EVER FIGURE IT out. Artie Shaw had achieved everything that success as a bandleader in his era could bestow: pop-idol celebrity, money, movie-star wives, near veneration for his instrumental virtuosity. Why did he suddenly walk away from it all? In 1954, after two high-flying decades at the head of ensembles as popular as -- and often more innovative than -- Glenn Miller's, Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's, after a succession of hits (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) that sold millions of records around the world, Shaw, then 44, packed up his clarinet and quit...
...Baltimore Convention Center to attack one of the most radical series of proposals on sexual morality ever to come before a major ) Christian denomination. In essence, the church report, three years in preparation, shattered 19 centuries of tradition and asked the church, for the first time, to bestow acceptance upon sex outside of marriage -- for homosexuals, for adult singles living together and, with less enthusiasm, for teenagers. Adultery would be next, critics charged...