Word: bestowals
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...Hampshire votes tomorrow, and half-a-hundred trends, meanings, insights and revelations will be gleaned from the wisdom that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded...
...while. They'd have to fall on their faces to get scores that are lower then anyone else's," he stated. And then in his cynical, croaking voice, never having looked at the rink during the Soviet performance, he predicted what score each of the nine judges would bestow on the unsmiling, cool and controlled Russian skaters...
Argentina's renowned man of letters, Jorge Luis Borges, has characterized her as a "common prostitute." That scarcely fazes Messrs. Rice and Lloyd Webber and Director Harold Prince as they bestow on Eva Duarte Perón some of the epic dimensions attributed to her by her ardent worshipers, the descamisados (shirtless ones), the poorest of the Argentine poor...
Khomeini's plans for the constitutional justification of his religious regime also continued apace. An elected 70-member Assembly of Experts has been slowly poring over a new draft constitution that would codify the religious transformation of Iranian life and bestow overwhelming power on the country's religious leaders. Though it has passed only 23 of 151 proposed articles so far, the Assembly approved the most pivotal provision: Article 5, which would lay the legal ground for the establishment of a Shi'ite Muslim theocracy Specifically, the article upholds the principle Velayat-e-faqih, the theologians...
...Japanese physicist suffering from Nagasaki syndrome and a dishonorably discharged black Vietvet -first pool their malignant talents. The group's nuclear capability is channeled by an ambitious eminence blonde, mistress of a powerful and power-hungry U.S. Senator, in an attempt to plunge the nation into panic and bestow dictatorial powers on him/her...