Word: bestows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Germany. What alone gave it significance was its place in a steady procession of Russian moves toward Germany-trade talk, a new offer (trickily qualified) for all-German elections, a bid for an exchange of diplomats between Bonn and Moscow. Russia still has an even greater favor to bestow: the return of an estimated 103,000 Germans still held prisoner by the Russians. Presumably this awaits the propitious moment...
...regret that we cannot bestow this 1954 award upon Cornell University. It surely had the opportunity to blaze a path for Harvard and others to follow. Instead, Harvard took the initiative as it has done so often in recent years...
Last week's procession, which took half an hour to pass the reviewing stand, was a relatively modest tribute to Argentina's strong man. Among the extravagant titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman...
Five thousand miles away in Stockholm, a white-starched, tail-coated assembly of the Nobel Foundation was about to bestow literature's most distinguished accolade on the products of his pencil. This week, "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration," the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway, originally of Oak Park, III, and later of most of the world's grand and adventurous places...
...faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...