Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they go about their nefarious business. But that difficulty is neatly finessed by two factors. The most important of them is casting Michael Caine as the assault group's commander. There is not another leading man on-screen today who so consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt...
...also one of the organizers of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which began, in 1957, as a multidisciplined, worldwide scientific investigation of the earth and the space around it. IGY eventually grew into an extended exploration of Antarctica, where a newly discovered mountain was named Mount Press in honor of the scientist...
...like some slapstick Pat and Mike show transplanted to distant Africa. Everywhere that Nikolai Podgorny went, Fidel Castro was sure to have been. Well, almost. After inviting himself to Zambia, the Cuban leader left the band, the honor guard, the artillery poised for its 19-gun salute, waiting at the airport. Sorry, Castro decided after taking off from Tanzania, I'm going to Mozambique instead. "He asked to come," said a bewildered Zambian official. "We said yes, and that's the last we ever heard...
While the cult of masculine honor is giving way in Tunisia, the void may be filled all too predictably by the cult of materialism. In the modernization process it is unlikely that in Tunisia, probably the most secularized of Muslim nations, Islamic considerations will provide much competition to the seduction of the West in shaping the ultimate directions of the liberation of women, or most other trends for that matter. This is the price that many developing countries have...
...mountain. One need look no farther than baseball's Roberto Clemente or auto racing's Peter Revson as examples of what A.E. Housman was trying to say in "To an Athlete Dying Young" when he penned "Now you will not swell the rout/Of lads who wore their honor...