Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors predict that if unions win more fringes and management continues to bestow extras on its own (as it often has), fringes may replace wage boosts: "Both labor and management need to reconsider . .. The American appetite for more security against the risks of life, coupled with the desire for more time off with pay, is virtually a bottomless pit into which the whole economy could fall-at the expense of the wage structure which in the last analysis constitutes the real base of our national standard of living...
...strode into the public eye with his head cropped bald (so that scalp wounds he picked up in his famed African plane crash will heal more quickly), was officially decorated on his 55th birthday with the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes-the highest honor Cuba can bestow upon a foreigner. Later Papa displayed the decoration for wife Mary and friend Jaime Bofill, launched on his 56th year in a warm and sentimental glow...
...Stalin) in ceremonies in Manhattan. The award, good for $25,000 in cash, would have been tendered in Moscow if the State Department had let Robeson make the journey. The substitute presentation of what Communist Author Howard Fast called "the highest award which the human race can bestow upon one of its members" was described by the Daily Worker: ". . . There was a hush as the medal, with Stalin's likeness on one side, was pinned on. Then came the misty eyes as Fast embraced the guest of honor, tiptoeing to kiss him on both cheeks." Robeson, "in a voice...
...will be a lucrative one for you," promised lecturer Gordon MacKinnon with a big smile. MacKinnon had good reason for smiling; New England Mutual Hall was filled for his Demonstration Meeting of the Dale Carnagic Course in Human Relations. Advance newspaper ads had stressed the course's ability to bestow courage, self-confidence, and U. S. currency on those who took it, and three hundred people had felt insecure, inferior, and poor enough to trek into Boston for last Thursday's evening meeting...
Shortly before 5 p.m. this afternoon over 500 Yale juniors will file quietly into the courtyard of Branford College. This is Tap Day, the day when Yale's senior societies bestow on Eli juniors the highest honor or the deepest heartache that can come to a young man in New Haven...