Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reviewing his guest list before the dinner, Kenny exclaimed: "I don't think there will be a soul there who wouldn't campaign for me." Actually, most of those who attended were there to honor a friend rather than board a bandwagon. Teddy Kennedy, who does not like backing losers, may well stay on the sidelines until the June convention or even the September primary. Many politicians doubt in any case that O'Donnell can wrest the nomination from Edward McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, who has held statewide office (Attorney General), has been campaigning...
Just as Orestes murdered his mother Clytemnestra, the closest male relative is still often expected to avenge the family honor...
...foremost prep schools with an enrollment of 600 and the highest of academic rankings; of cancer; in Hobe Sound, Fla. "The Old Head," as his boys called him, forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy was one of the graduates who remembered his frequent exhortation: "Ask not what your school can do for you, but what you can do for your school...
...Munk's film stands up less well than Ozu's under the glare of posthumous appraisal. It looks like a roughing out of the masterwork that it was meant to be-one angry young Pole's bitter, blackly comic jeer at wartime myths of courage and honor...
Commissar. In seeking an ogre in history, Historical Novelist Fast (Citizen Tom Paine) need have looked no further than the man in whose honor he was given the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. But perhaps a contemporary fable would be too painful for Fast. He was an unswervingly militant card-carrying Communist and something of a culture commissar for Communism. Himself a Jew, he became anti-Stalin and quit the Party only when he discovered that Stalin was anti-Jew. This underlies the special weakness of Fast's tale. In fashioning Torquemada as a demented racist and centering...