Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victor A. Koivumaki III '67 of the Alumni Office said yesterday he did not think a "certain type" of student is attracted by the marshal post. He said a wide range of students run because "it's the highest honor your class can bestow upon...
...baseball establishment itself held on to at least 2700 tickets to bestow on managers, coaches and players, on executives from the league offices and from the front offices of other clubs, and on various allies in the political and business worlds. Every Massachusetts state legislator was given the chance to buy at least two tickets. The National Broadcasting Company reserved at least 400 seats for its executives and sponsors. Then the Red Sox had to remember the City Council and the Mayor who, in this election year, certainly put their tickets to good use. Various Washington celebrities and their families...
Retired Bishop William Moody said that "if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat...
...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...