Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus far, the emphasis in dealing with the water shortage has been to restrict usage. This has been done on an honor system, backed up by threats of water meters and stopgap measures like the rationing of water for air-conditioning units. There is, of course, nothing wrong in advocating economical use of existing water supplies, particularly when it is coupled with a sincere effort to stop leaks in the water system. What is fatal, however, is the assumption that these temporary measures are the final solution. No one would like to see tax-burdened New Yorkers saddled with another...
...evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet Nam that he left without bidding Warren good night...
Braves' owners looked down on their spread-eagled, neither-here-nor-there position, briefly contemplated the horror of being ordered to play in two cities and not being able to play anywhere, and quickly announced they would honor the directives of the Atlanta courts. It may not be so simple. If they lose in Wisconsin, the Braves and the rest of the National League would be vulnerable to a substantial damage award that might then be enforced by courts in other National League states. The courts of at least one of those states can surely be counted...
...small humorless cipher whose knowledge of aerodynamics puts everyone's fate in his hands, and well he knows it. Richard Attenborough is flawless as a stuttering, alcoholic navigator, rivaled by Ian Bannen as a bore abristle with saving wit, and Peter Finch as an officer whose code of honor consists mostly of suicidal gestures...
...Morgan received the American Bar Association Medal, the Association's highest honor...