Word: hon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might agree with the Hon. Hugh Scott that railway nationalization would not work in the U.S. [March 17], but reject his comment about the present state of the nationalized British railways. As an American who has spent two years in England, I find the rail service here without equal anywhere with the possible exception of Japan...
...outside Washington, Butterfield has found that his forthright revelation about the tapes has created quite a different reaction. On trips, Butterfield is constantly sought out by people who want to congratulate him for his hon esty and candor. In Los Angeles, one woman asked him if he would shake her son's hand. "His father was killed in Viet Nam," she said. "You're the kind of man he would want his son to grow...
...sure of his complete support. One immediate obstacle to the monarch's return to his throne is the referendum of July 1973, sponsored by the junta, which abolished the monarchy and established a republic. Constantine, however, has told intimates that if his countrymen "chose a republic in an hon est referendum, then the only thing I will ask of them is to return to Greece with my family as an ordinary citizen...
...names needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together is to be dazzled −and then to be struck again by the fact that many are not so much names as implied biographies. What else needs to be said about a soldier called Captain the Hon. Fitz-Whisker Fiercy, or a chauvinist U.S. Congressman called the Hon. Elijah Pogram...
...country where age has traditionally been an important criterion for industrial command, Hon da Motor Co. was long conspicuous for the youth of its leadership; Soichiro Honda founded the company in 1948 when he was only 42. Now, having built it into a colossus with sales of $1.2 billion a year, he is returning the company to the junior side of the generation gap by retiring at 67 and turning over the reins to Kiyoshi Kawashima, 45, a quiet, self-deprecating engineer who at 45 is at least 15 years younger than most Japanese chief executives...