Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have come here," President Johnson told the dignitaries assembled in the East Room, "to honor a very brave American soldier. The acts of extraordinary courage to which we pay tribute were not performed in hope of reward. They began with a soldier doing his duty-but went so far beyond the call of duty that they became a patriot's gift to this country...
...fellow South Carolinian, Brigadier General John F. T. Kennedy, 80, who had received the Medal of Honor for action against Philippine guerrillas in 1909, and stood proudly by last week as Johnson hung the nation's highest emblem of heroism -only the fourth awarded for action in Viet Nam-around Lieut. Williams' neck. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and the greatest thing that ever will happen," said Williams. He recalled that one Commander-in-Chief-it was Truman-had said he would rather have the Medal of Honor than be President, adding...
...article concerning Sunday afternoon's procession about Quincy House was inaccurate. The ceremony which included the exorcism was in celebration of the accession of Charles W. Dunn to the Mastership of Quincy House. The Lowell House Honor Guard was invited because Master Dunn is a former associate of Lowell House. At no time did either Mr. Schapack or myself explain "somewhat sheepishly" [or otherwise] that "it was the day before the opening of classes." Thank you for printing this correction. Robert E. Stiefel Teaching Fellow in German
France's Honoré Daumier had a way of drawing out the nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked out a real Shakespearean number with long sleeves, high lace collar and floor-length hoop...