Word: emeritus
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...group, leaning on the back of a white BMW. Soon, almost all the marchers had joined him, sitting on the car's trunk, or grouped around in a semicircle before him. Huntington and the CFIA were forgotten, as the crowd stood transfixed by the voice of the ambassador emeritus...
...edge of the academic map by staging a legal-education conference with speakers like F. Lee Bailey, Melvin Belli and Admiral Joseph McDevitt, the Navy's Judge Advocate General. For Belli, who had lectured before at the school, the conference was climaxed by his appointment as dean emeritus (though he had never been dean...
...deny their own "human worth," to use the least ridiculous phrase left when they deny such worth in opponents. And having put a mental X across the enemy faces one might as well, for efficiency, toss in an anti-personal grenade (though Etymology, a certain old bleeding-heart professor-emeritus, might whimper that "anti-personnel" is "substantially equivalent" to "in-human...
Died. William B. Hartsfield, 80, former mayor of Atlanta, whose 231 years in office are said to be a U.S. record for service in a major city and produced the title "mayor emeritus"; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Following an untraditional policy of racial moderation, Hartsfield guided his city through turbulent years of integration in the 1950s with the slogan "Atlanta is a city too busy to hate." After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator), but Atlantans recognized that he had influenced the city's development more than...
Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, who was selected for the award in 1965, said yesterday that "Professor Brauer is a highly deserving man and I am very happy...