Word: honorally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shakes as a gift: 32 books and a few bolts of cloth from a governor of Britain's East India Co. to a struggling American college known as the Connecticut Collegiate School. Yet the colonists so deeply appreciated it that they changed the school's name to honor the donor. And now, having expanded over the years, the present university last week sent 150 alumni, professors and students led by President Kingman Brewster all the way to Wrexham, Wales, to unveil a plaque commemorating the gift made by Elihu Yale...
Westbrook: Boy, that really moves me. Lehner: Picture the kind of thing you would get if you were awarded the Legion of Honor. Real parchmenty, with a great big heraldry and wax and stamps. And on the certificate it says, "The American Anti-Noise League." And you hear the announcer say with great...
...these things and some of these things and none of these things at all. The press played us for what we were worth and then dropped us like the younger sister of a two-bit whore. But there were parts of us they never touched. We had our honor and our price. There were levels of profundity and nuance they could never fathom. So be calm because I'm not about to unveil our mystique here. Probably I had you scared, woried at least that I would attempt to expose our secret. Fear not, I'm no stoolie. And besides...
...from selling the rights to run preliminary contests at local and regional levels. If a city balks at the price, there are always other takers waiting in line. Eight years ago, the Miss Universe Pageant moved to Miami when Long Beach, Calif., refused to pay $100,000 for the honor of playing host to the contest. Not to be outdone, Long Beach started up its own International Beauty Pageant on ABC. Another variation: sponsors offer a free package show to stations on a syndicated basis; in return, the sponsors are allowed to title the contest with the name of their...
...heavy emotional content of these problems, makes the moral leadership of the President more and more often the crucial factor. You will lead Presidents no less than being led by them," Donovan concluded. "Hold Presidents and yourselves, then, to the highest standards of civic courage, compassion and honor...