Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paper is something of an ostentation these days. All the information we need jumps off a screen and is abstracted back into electrons when we look away. "Books" are the gilded volumes that crown the achievements of the canonized. "Books" are placed strategically on a conspicuous shelf to bestow a semblance of weathered intellectualism. "Books" gather dust...
...have written letters to the three surviving Beatles to bestow upon us all their wit and greatness" says Jones, who wrote letters to the three musicians in the past summer. "That remains the ultimate, as-yet unfulfilled goal of the club members. That's our ultimate dream...
...only as "recognition that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially in a season that celebrates God's goodwill toward man, Mother Teresa's own loving luminosity prompts many to bestow on her a title that she would surely reject. She is, they say, a living saint...
...that the Clintons were complete hermits. What trip to Massachusetts would be complete without a Kennedy visitation? They chummed around on TED KENNEDY's yacht with the Senator, his wife Victoria Reggie, niece CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG and assorted others from the famous clan. Bill also had time to bestow a presidential pat--and instant celebrity--on BUDDY, a local pooch. "Is this a great dog or what?" Clinton asked, even though dogs still don't have the vote...
...Nino would also bestow a patchwork of benefits. Off Chile, fishermen could look forward to catching anchovies normally found much farther north. Peruvians have been enjoying balmy beaches in the middle of their winter. And residents of the U.S. could look forward to fewer Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, an earlier spring in the Northeast and a blessed lull in tornadoes throughout the Midwest. All things considered, says Florida State University oceanographer James O'Brien, Americans should think of El Nino as a "good dude...