Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion to research this episode thoroughly, for it occurred during the tenure of Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy (whose biographer I have the honor...
...polished ritual. Speaking from the heart via the TelePrompTer, the President delivered an oration that might have been composed in honor of Wellington, post-Waterloo...
Victoria Cross. The same eagerness crushed Indian mutineers at Lucknow in the Sepoy Rebellion in 1858. It scattered Nazi Germany's Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein during World War II and earned the regiment the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honor, for service during the Korean War. On its last assignment, helping to quell last year's Aden rebellion, the regiment displayed its typical bravado, marching to the strains of bagpipe music into the middle of the Arab-terrorized Crater district under the colorful command of Captain Colin ("Mad Mitch") Mitchell...
...such young people are Robert Hall, a 20-year-old Seattle Negro whose skin is so black it is bluish, and his strawberry blonde fiancée Nancy Mitton, also 20. Inseparable since grade school, both were honor students in high school and won scholarships to Western Washington State College. There, both have become campus leaders-and Hall, who intends to become a chemical engineer, finished the school's four-year chemistry curriculum before the end of his sophomore year. The couple plan to be married in September, then enter the University of Washington to begin their junior year...
...level Anouilh feels no need to explain how the letters to Bonfant find their way into Madame Mlle, de Ste. Euverte's hands, on a textual level he feels no qualms about using the term 'soul' to explain contradictory situations. When Anouilh wants to indulge in a dissertation about 'honor' he so indulges, forming such a situation even though nothing of the resulting discussion between the General and his Secretary is coherently related to the characters or the action of the rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays, one that...