Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing social and sexual freedom of Tunisian women may be the result of this increased emphasis on material wealth, which lessens the importance of the issues of male honor at stake in men's position vis-a-vis women...
...cult of masculine honor" of Medieval Islam, of which the harem is the most vivid image to westerners, persists in Modern Tunisia. A wife's adultery no longer requires her execution by her kinsman or husband, but it is still the greatest assault on his honor...
...does so much honor and self-esteem hinge on this aspect of men's daily lives? The late Marshall Hodgson, a noted Orientalist, writes that this situation often obtains "when there are few other sources of assured status than sheer masculinity. Presumably in a society where social status on the basis of class was relatively precarious, sensitivity about a man's honor was reinforced...
...Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President is there. The history of those honor guards that Carter is curtailing-Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rated only a four-man color guard-goes back to the Bible; in the U.S. they have been lined up for 200 years according to the manual of Baron von Steuben. There is protest that a patriotic message that...
...organize workers in California's vineyards and truck farms. Last week, before television cameras, the two unions signed a peace treaty that gives the field hands to the U.F.W., and the canners, packers and farm-truck drivers to the Teamsters. The unlikely allies pledged to honor each other's picket lines, support each other's organizing efforts and cooperate in seeking legislation to strengthen the right of farm workers to union representation. "Both of us were fed up with fighting," said an exultant Chavez as he signed the agreement with M.E. Anderson, director of the Western Conference...