Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Receiver Pat McInally is the most recent Harvard football first team All-American, achieving that honor in 1974. He did it some 33 years after the last Crimson All-American gridder. Who was this guard turned Governor of Massachusetts...
...Walter Scott "Honor to the Scotsman and the creator of the clean historical novel. I repeat it though I have small reservations about the arrows shot here and there against the Catholic Church." He extols the "courage and loyalty" in Scott's novels and expresses "astonishment that despite today's deluge of morally degrading literature, young people are still drawn to them...
MacArthur was a man of maddening contradictions, half mamma's boy and half the warrior son of a warrior father. Arthur MacArthur was not yet 20 when he led a charge up Missionary Ridge in the Civil War, an action that won him the Medal of Honor. He went on to fight Apaches in the West and Spaniards in the Philippines, which he subsequently administered as military governor. Temperamental and occasionally insubordinate, he was publicly rebuked by Teddy Roosevelt for predicting war with Germany. "Arthur MacArthur," his aide later said, "was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever...
...wasn't there-or was he?-Abbie Hoffman, 41, onetime noisemaker and co-founder of the Yippies, who has been on the lam for over four years on a charge of selling cocaine. The $10-a-head event, billed as a "Bring Abbie Home" rally, was in his honor, and Lawyer William Kunstler gave the impression that he might show up and turn himself in to police. Said the radicals' favorite attorney: "He's tired of running. We're hopeful." Many of those who came to the festivity wore Abbie Hoffman masks and signs claiming that...
...swiftness of the vote also caught the Vatican bureaucracy by surprise. Some of the Swiss Guards had to be rounded up from neighborhood cafes, and they finally mustered for an honor march across the square during John Paul's appearance on the balcony, but not?as is customary?before it. Vatican officials on the list of those who make the act of obedience to the Pope after the appearance were scattered, some at the beach. Such notables as Substitute Secretary of State Giuseppe Caprio scurried back just in time for Felici's announcement. They were not summoned into the Sistine...