Word: bestowal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White House to fly down for the festival. Tricia also had something of a surprise in store for him: she revealed that her first official White House party will be a masked ball, because, "it hasn't been done...
Unquiet Sleep. Thus last week did Russia bestow final rites on Aleksei Kosterin, a writer who, only a month before he died, had resigned from the Communist Party rather than face what he considered illegal expulsion for his views. Kosterin had protested a variety of Soviet repressions, including the recent trials of dissidents and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Though that alone might have accounted for the brusqueness of his funeral, Soviet authorities were actually far more concerned with the living than with the dead in the crematorium. For Kosterin's eulogist was his old friend, Major General Pyotr Grigorenko...
...good thing for the Baseball Writers' Association that its members decided last year to bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts...