Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local citizen strode up to Judge "Three-Legged Willie" Williamson's table, pulled out a Bowie knife and said: "Your Honor, this is the law in this country." Said the judge, pulling out his six-shooter: "This is the constitution that overrides...
Fellowships endowed for $100,000 have been established in honor of Michael C. Rockefeller '60 by his family and friends...
Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, currently serving on the Atomic Energy Commission, will return to Radcliffe May 10 to speak at a farewell dinner in honor of Kenneth V. Thimann, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...makes it unhealthy, if no less popular, to commit such "crimes against honor" as rubbing the nose (questioning ancestry), tugging at the ear (questioning male virility) or fondling the back of the ear (alluding to pederasty). It is even illegal to stare suggestively at a pretty girl, though every self-respecting Italian male does it. On the other hand, there is one splendid defense: not intentionally getting caught in the act. A silent insult made behind a victim's back may be ruled unintentional, even if it is seen reflected in a mirror or a window...
...passengers split into two distrustful groups-one angrily determined to find the freighter's secret, the other willing to accept the typhus explanation and make the best of the well-stocked bar. As the voyage broods on to mutiny, the division widens. On one side, pride parades as honor; on the other, moral cowardice masquerades as good sense. The cruise ends abruptly when one of the insurgent passengers is shot. Cortazar makes his point with considerable force: honor is easily fuddled, cowardice breeds comfortably, human society is both the condition and the result of the breeding. The Winners...