Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Concerning the historian as participant: In 1892 President Eliot of Harvard notified Henry Adams that he would be the recipient of an honorary degree in recognition of his History of the United States. Adams declined, and urged that the honor be conferred on Nicolay and Hay for their Abraham Lincoln, A History. Eliot replied: "Those gentlemen did not write history, but the historical biography of a man just dead. They were actors in many of the scenes they described, and, therefore, could not be historians. They have prepared invaluable materials for the subsequent historian, and done an admirable piece...
...Viet Cong, which does not celebrate the birth of Christ. Since it was plainly intended as a propaganda ploy, the Communist offer of a twelve-hour cease-fire was at first ignored in Washington and Saigon. Finally, though still skeptical that the Communists would honor their commitment, the U.S. last week raised the ante and proposed a 30-hour truce...
...occasion was a state dinner for West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. In his honor the White House invited a spirited, varied list of 140 guests, ranging from Dean Acheson to Gene Autry, George Meany to Thomas Dewey. By candlelight in the evergreen-decked state dining room, they feasted on roast duckling, Bibb lettuce salad, lobster imperial and "Yule log" dessert (chocolate cake coated with mocha butter)-the last culinary triumph of White House Chef René Verdon, a Kennedy find who heatedly gave notice a week before the party that he was leaving...
...nation. An Unknown Soldier from World War I lies beneath the Abbey's roof. In the rear of Henry VII's centuries-old chapel glows a brilliant, stained-glass window reflecting the Royal Air Force's stand during the Battle of Britain. But to the enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national grave for the composer Purcell, the scientists Newton, Darwin and Kelvin. In Poets' Corner lie a score more than Keats, Tennyson and Browning. There is even a modern Epstein bust of Blake...
...become so darkened by age and candle smoke fhat it is known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every honor in sight. Wed last year in the Montserrat monastery to Spanish Tenor Bernabé Martí, whom she met while singing Madama Butterfly in Barcelona, she says, "I am probably the only Cio-Cio-San who ever married her Pinkerton...