Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, I plan to appoint diplomatic officials who have superb credentials, strictly on the basis of merit, not reward people for political favors. And that's a commitment that I've made on my word of honor. I'm not going to break...
...ascended the rostrum to the accompaniment of Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman-roughly, China's version of Hail to the Chief and a song that heretofore had been played only in Mao's honor. Significantly, the new helmsman was dressed in full military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured...
...simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state, directed the battle in the trenches from afar, and counted each vote as extension and product and reward of effort...
Five 'Cliffe players, forwards Karen Linsley, Gwill York and Sarah Mleczko, along with right-link Stefi Baum and sweeper Ann Dupuis, were named to the first team. Linsley was the only Crimson stickwoman to earn that honor in each of the last two years...
...time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time each year when news of my birthday appears in the papers. It gives things...