Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herschbach, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, said he was "surprised and flattered but also embarrassed" by this most recent honor...
...Your Honor," he said in a high, reedy voice, "before these proceedings begin, I would like to revisit the issue of my relations with my attorneys." At first, most people in the courtroom didn't even know who was speaking. A few feet away, the prosecutors looked up in confusion, then concern, as the man suspected of killing three people, maiming 23 others, taunting the FBI and terrorizing the airlines, apologized to the judge for not rising "because I am under orders from the marshals not to stand up." When Kaczynski finished speaking, Burrell looked stricken. He thought...
...cities, looking for a share in the postwar prosperity. So these young men decide to repeat the past. They dismantle the oven, load it on a truck and move it and their families farther west to start up, from scratch, another Oklahoma town, which they name Ruby to honor the woman in their clan who died after the journey. Ruby is 90 miles from anywhere else, which is just what the new patriarchs want, except for a strange old house 17 miles away known locally as the Convent...
...loan contract with the Leopold Foundation to return the works to Vienna as soon as the show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them. "If we can't honor our contracts, it will have the iciest chilling effect on loans," MOMA's legal counsel, Stephen Clark, told the New York Times. "Who would lend, knowing that the pictures might not come back...
...Getting drafted was a great honor, but I learned that it really doesn't mean all that much when it is over and done with unless you really want it," Storey said. "I definitely want it, but right now I'm working on my game overall trying to mold it into something that will be able to survive and prosper...