Word: deeding
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...course, Harvard wasn't taking Southern grace easily, sprinkling two fumbles of its own among the William and Mary turnovers. Tribe coach Jimmye Laycock, the purest of Southern gentlemen, did his good deed for the day on his team's next possession. The turnover streak stopped at four, but Laycock's gift was just as pleasing for Harvard...
...keep hope alive, specific individuals address themselves in word and deed to specific issues: disarmament, population control, environmentalism...
Before that occurred, however, the British did one magnificent deed: in 1833 they abolished slavery, here as elsewhere in their empire...
...University of California system tried selling tax-exempt bonds to finance first trust deed loans, but Congress effectively canceled this method in 1980, though not before the program had helped some 190 faculty members. U.C.L.A. also started its own program of second mortgages but ran into trouble when it had to choose between tenured professors and promising newcomers. Besides, adds Crooks, even with low-cost loans "a professor cannot even afford these loans unless he has additional family income." At Stanford, the university is constructing 144 condominiums and town houses...
...question: What is the worth (moral, financial, mystical) of a person's oath? What do we mean when we promise, when we vow, when we pledge our word? Whatever their union's legal case may be, the controllers did take an oath; was that not a binding deed? Many Americans found themselves distantly disturbed that what was once a matter of some human solemnity should be brushed aside as if it were merely a technical detail. The social edifice shuddered slightly; down in the basement, a dusty little taboo fell off a shelf and shattered...