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Word: bestows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted "to kill me a couple." Another was so scared he did not know what he was doing. The third was hoping to impress his superiors and advance his career. Cooper is even more startled when four of his five heroes calmly refuse the highest honor their country can bestow (one, it turns out, is wanted for murder in Albuquerque, and the publicity would probably hang him). When Cooper refuses their refusals, they t- blackmail. Finally, one of them tries to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Uninterested in defending an imaginative political position, and perhaps largely unable to do so, the overwhelming majority assume the only political stance that needs no defense--that of the "moderate liberal." Haughtily denouncing conservatives as "crackpots" and radicals as "fanatics," these squatters in the "middle-of-the-road" bestow their silent blessing on almost any proposal that carries the "liberal" label. Some of these proposals are wise, but others...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...gesture of good will and greeting, the University will also probably bestow an honorary upon Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, Dean of Students at Rutgers University. The CRIMSON learned several days ago from very reliable sources that Mrs. Bunting will probably become the next president of Radcliffe College, succeeding Wilbur K. Jordan. Jordan, himself, is also a strong possibility for an honorary...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Speculation over Honoraries Grows; Big Crime Contest Open to Students | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...authority . . . The police power cannot be asserted to thwart or override the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, state or federal . . . No fair-minded person would be so unreasonable as to seek to hold me responsible for failure to exercise the powers which the state is powerless to bestow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Virginia Gives Way | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...which usually attend the dramatic genre. He retells the story of Job in contemporary setting and retells it in poetry. J.B. is a successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank are destroyed; his wife leaves him; and he is reduced ultimately to a skin sack...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: J.B. | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

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