Word: bestowal
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...late Bishop James A. Pike of California for "irresponsible" doctrinal statements. In the Portland discussions, some prelates fumed about the "total lawlessness" of their three colleagues. Retired Bishop William Moody of Lexington, Ky., a traditionalist, remarked that if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat. "We already have parts of the horse," he allowed. "Why not the whole thing?" Before the vote, one of the two rebel prelates present, retired Bishop Edward Welles, 68, of west Missouri, said he had deliberately disobeyed the law to "get justice" for women...
Died. Mary Penelope Hillyard, sixtyish, owner of Blarney Castle and the stone embedded in its parapet that is said to bestow the gift of persuasive eloquence-in other words, blarney-on whoever kisses it; after accidentally setting her clothes on fire with a cigarette; in County Cork, Ireland. Mrs. Hillyard inherited the 15th century castle in 1951 from her uncle, who stipulated in his will that the fabled stone must never be sold. When an American chain-store millionaire offered to buy it in 1968, she turned the offer down, presumably with eloquence...
...with the Administration viewpoint he supported as Secretary of the Army from 1971 to 1973. Froehlke said he had opposed amnesty when the U.S. was still fighting. Now that the war is over, he passionately pleaded, amnesty is an "act that only a strong, confident and just nation can bestow. You cannot demand amnesty. You cannot threaten amnesty. Amnesty is given. The insecure, the mean, the confused cannot grant amnesty. Now is the time to begin mending the heartbreak and wounds left...
...Judge Sirica had solved our inflation and oil-shortage problems, then I would bestow upon him the Man of the Year honors...
...risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome's revenge...