Word: bestowal
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...Never. Accompanied by his wife Muriel, more than 50 reporters, staffers and Secret Service men and an argosy of silver bowls, spoons and forks to bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva. From Kennedy Round negotiators he heard glum reports that the talks had reached an impasse over Washington's reluctance to lower tariffs on imported chemicals and European resistance to lowering duties on American farm products. Humphrey warned that if agreement was not reached by the deadline at month's end, the U.S. Congress-now in an increasingly protectionist mood-was not likely to renew...
...onetime restaurant. Maddox had good reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely outcome is that the nod will go to Maddox, even though Callaway outpolled him on Election Day by 3,538 votes...
...believe I would not be incorrect in assessing election to PBK as the second highest academic honor Harvard College can bestow. If so, the Society should act less like a Final Club, and more like an honorary society. It is well known amongst those eligible--chiefly, the consistent Group II's--that in all cases, save those with straight A's to show, election is strongly dependent on two factors: one's friends in the Society, and/or among the Society's faculty advisers. As I understand it, faculty recommendations carry strong weight, and each member has "blackball" power over...
...Utah's Lucy Redd: "Viet Nam is the No. 1 problem with our women. A lot of them are going to vote against the Administration." The Democratic ladies themselves displayed an unnerving degree of adoration for the President. Engulfing him in the White House, they jostled feverishly to bestow coos and kisses on Lyndon Johnson, knocking furniture and objets d'art pell-mell in a mob scene reminiscent of Andrew Jackson...
...pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried humans ("Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it"), and produces Poetry with alarming regularity...