Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...versatility included, as he admits, a powerful talent for getting fired, and for 'maneuvering himself into situations where honor and restlessness demanded that he resign. He was also good at spending money. The result was that his career continued to take peculiar turns-the commercial fishing venture, for instance-well after he had achieved what for an other man would have been professional security as a flyer and writer...
...father was embarrassed. "Son, they don't mean 'boring' like when we hear your grandfather recite the Gettysburg Address in Latin. It's just a tradition at Harvard that when the crowd particularly enjoys a half-time selection by the band they yell 'boring!' in honor of Leonard Boring, the first director of the Harvard Band...
Guido G. Goldman '59, executive director of the Center for European Studies and senior lecturer on Government, received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at a dinner given in his honor at the German Consulate General in Boston on September...
...argued that the demonstrations were surely eroding his authority?and in turn the army's?and must be stopped. Declared an army officer: "We told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been under the rule of troops...
Approximately 90 members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) left last night for a two-week trip to Berlin to participate in an international student orchestra competition sponsored by the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. Karajan was a former conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the competition is in honor of his 70th birthday...