Word: bestow
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...where, though he is significantly less plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...
...where, though he is significantly less plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...
...goal of providing students with a broader, international perspective. To cite one regional example: now that Lebanon and Yemen are off-limits, students wishing to travel to the Middle East are left to choose between the Gulf, Jordan and Egypt. Cynics may contend that these countries can bestow enough perspective on the Middle East to suffice, but we suggest that these cynics try convincing a Lebanese national that his culture is exactly the same as Jordan?...
After getting a good look at both squads, I’m convinced that Harvard could have played with either team, and given home field advantage—something that the NCAA would surely bestow on a 10-0 conference champion—would have been favored over both...
...Ugly; The Road Warrior; Aliens; Batman Returns. In TV, improving with age is the norm: a good sitcom, whether Mary Tyler Moore or South Park, ripens in its third or fourth season. Films used to be about drastic change, TV about the status quo. Now both bestow on their characters a steady evolution. A lot like growing up. But do moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed...