Word: bestow
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...practice of simply walking past tellers who count them as for or against an amendment. Under the new provision. Congressmen will be recorded; and the people who elected them-if interested-will be able to learn how they voted. That it has taken the House until 1970 to bestow such a benefice on the electorate is a commentary in itself. Secret votes in committee session were also barred, and the salaries of Congressional aides must now be reported in full...
...Richard Nixon: "The greatest honor history can bestow [power] . . . the chance to help lead the world [power] . . . onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of [achievement...
...1960s like an Orpheus in Hades, the Dylan of Self Portrait is in an astonishingly contemplative mood. As with John Wesley Harding (1968) and Nashville Skyline (1969), the old fire of protest burns low. Obviously, there is time now to look around, time to accept tributes and time to bestow them in return...
...ceremony was left purposely ambiguous, asking God to bestow "upon both the gifts which he has given each in our separation"-a formula that would allow conservative Anglicans to feel that the Methodists were getting Holy Orders, and Methodists to believe that they were not. But even Lord Fisher of Lambeth, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury who had proposed a formal reunion with the Methodists as far back as 1946, found the ambiguity unacceptable. The service, complained Fisher, "involves both churches in open double-dealing...
...Pueblo's personnel problems over. Although the U.S. does not physically possess the vessel or have any hope of getting it back soon, regulations require that every ship in commission have a commanding officer of record. The Navy is now looking for someone on whom to bestow the responsibility. The change of command promises to be awkward and piping the new captain aboard will be a problem, but Navy regs will be served...