Word: bestows
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...theater's lobby. Others found the filmmaker's artistic act of provocation to be a work of genius: avowed fan Henry Miller proclaimed that "they should take Buñuel and crucify him, or at least burn him at the stake. He deserves the greatest reward that man can bestow upon...
...arguments fail to take into account the large amounts of menial work graduate students perform, often in departments completely unrelated to their field. Shouldering clerical duties for a professor does not enhance the edification of graduate students--if anything, the work detracts from their studies. These extra tasks should bestow graduate students the right to collective bargaining...
...house. And though the President's House still stood mostly silent and dark, the new society's reason for being was now in its midst. On the second night he was there, Adams wrote his wife Abigail, who was back in Quincy, Mass.: "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." Nearly 150 years later, Franklin Roosevelt had those words carved into the mantel in the State Dining Room; Jacqueline Kennedy had it redone during...
...congressional critics were all Republicans, as Dan Quayle can tell you, the studios would be scripting a more colorful response and sending Chris Rock to the Hill to deliver it. Or perhaps not, for it pays these days to stay on the good side of Congress, which can bestow both favor and heartache when it comes to copyright issues and mergers. No one respects pandering more than Hollywood does. So like the fictional publicist in "America's Sweethearts," the movie industry has devoted itself to helping the stars of the show give the public what it wants...
...Favorite gift to bestow? A kiss to my wife. (That's Al Gore's too, presumably...