Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sound the trumpets, beat the drums in honor of and with profound gratitude to that peanut farmer [March 19] from Plains, who has accomplished, by his own initiative, what no other American President...
Carter may be the hero of the Middle East peace treaty, but one wonders if the history books will also give due honor to the downtrodden taxpayers of our country, who have to bear the burden of shelling out the billions of dollars to bribe Sadat and Begin to agree to Carter's terms...
...polite high school seniors, bused from Washington's National Airport, with their electric combs, three-piece suits, and dresses, triumphed over 350,000 classmates who entered this year's N.A.S.S.P. scholarship competition, a program called Century III Leaders. They are student-government presidents, church youth leaders, honor-society members. They were judged on their knowledge of current events, school grades and written proposals for solving public problems. Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship plus the free trip to Williamsburg. At the end of this two-day conference, funded by the Shell Oil Company, one will...
...last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
...based on a rational assessment of the audience they are aimed at. A generation born and raised on the monolithic visions of World War II and the Korean War, some analysts say, is trying desperately to convince itself that its sons and daughters feel the urge to serve. "Duty, honor, country and a sense of obligation to serye the Nation and mankind are very much a part of the ethic of today's youth," says Korean war veteran Rep. Paul J. McCloskey (R-Cal.). He insists the "young idealist" hwo opposed Vietnam "were the same type of individuals who volunteered...