Word: bestowal
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...bestow on the medical community a special prestige, and with that goes a public trust--in certain types of behavior and self-regulation. That trust was violated several times during the Hussain affair and related events. Guilt or innocence in specific cases is fun stuff for trial watchers, but the issue of professional responsibility will remain after the visage of Arif Hussain has faded from the front pages...
Then the neighbors, who had gathered outside, became quite concerned about my mental health, offering me tea as I told them what a stupid fool I really am. A decade passed before a cop arrived to fill out forms and bestow a traffic citation and a bill for the tow truck. He drove me back to the house, asking me how long I'd be in town and what I was doing that night. "Feeling guilty," I answered miserably...
...chief ideologue, made his final television appearance last December, the image that flashed on Soviet screens was a veritable icon of the Kremlin's masters. In an arresting gesture that symbolized 17 years of shared power, the lanky, 6-ft.-tall Suslov, 79, bent down to bestow a kiss on Leonid Brezhnev, who was celebrating his 75th birthday. Brezhnev will sorely miss such accolades, both ceremonial and substantive. Suslov's death last week from a stroke deprived Brezhnev of his most influential ally in the Soviet Union's ruling collective leadership. Observed one Moscow diplomat: "A pillar...
...problems of 1982. That is an implausible prospect. Though Roosevelt might not have favored the swollen growth of Government intervention, regulation and spending, it seems likely that if he could return to survey the results of the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society, he would bestow on them that famous smile of satisfaction...
...come to a Harvard that cherished giving freedom to the individual. And he conquered it, although on his own terms. Many others could have left disillusioned with their academic experience, or the stifling social ambience. Harvard, perhaps, didn't bestow on Reed the glory he associated with the name, but he came out of it with energy ready to be sapped, talent eager to go to work, a mind willing to challenge...