Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe won the first Seven Sisters Sailing Regatta at Princeton last weekend. The Cliffies sailed away with the Tiger Bowl and a plaque in honor of the Temple of the Seven Vestal Virgins...
...King admitted that 10 million Americans at most "explicitly oppose the war," but said that they included many of "our deepest thinkers in the academic and intellectual communi ty." Building to a sonorous peroration, he cried: "Let us save our national honor-stop the bombing. Let us save American lives and Vietnamese lives-stop the bombing. Let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table-stop the bombing. Let our voices ring out across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors -stop the bombing." Through it all ran the theme that America, "which initiated...
Most bank cards cost consumers nothing-provided they pay their bills at the bank within 30 days. After that, the banks usually collect a highly profitable 1½%-a-month interest on the balance. Merchants who agree to honor the cards usually pay a 5% discount to exchange their charge slips for cash from the banks (v. up to 7% through American Express). In parts of the Midwest, competition has driven the rate down to 3%, but even that is not quite low enough to attract major retailers, who have a heavy investment in their own credit setups. President...
...next 60 years or so, the hunt for Charley Ross continued all over the country, while young boys, then mature men, then greying old folks-5,000 people in all-turned up to claim the honor. But none of them proved it, and to this day nobody, the author included, knows what happened to Charley. He has either gone the way of Judge Crater, or, at 96, is alive and well in Argentina...
...more irksome to Kazin, however, were "those middle-class and doctrinaire radicals who, after graduating from Harvard or Yale in the Twenties, had made it a matter of personal honor to become Marxists, and who now worried in the New Masses whether Proust should be read after the Revolution and why there seemed to be no simple proletarians in the novels of Andre Malraux. "Kazin's irritation with these men is a product of his involvement in the other community--the tenements of Brownsville. Although these middle class radicals may have been socialists, the socialism they espoused seemed more like...