Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illegal in Austria, and as a member of the S.S., the party's genocidal elite, Wick was obviously an enthusiastic participant in Hitlerism. That men like him escaped trial and imprisonment and were allowed to rejoin society without paying any penalty is in itself unfortunate; according an honor to Wick is a repugnant offense to the memory of those who died at the hands of the barbarous organizations to which he belonged...
...1960s Private Eye John Steed (Patrick Macnee) was regularly upstaged in The Avengers on British TV by a sexy tough-Honor Blackman-who wore a black leather pantsuit when things got rough. Later Diana Rigg and then Linda Thorson took over the tough-cookie role...
Hating myself for doing this, as losers gain no honor in verbal warfare post facto, I must say that your very partisan reporting did little justice to the great championship basketball game involving Leverett and Eliot Wednesday night (Leverett, 51-46, OT). Quite clearly, the two best house teams of recent years did battle, leaving one somewhat mystified as to where the reporter dug his "It was not supposed to be such a close game" scoop...
Hill expressed little surprise about the outcome of the election, noting that "It's always an honor when your teammates think of you as a leader...
This incident was particularly significant in light of the frequency and piety with which my friends expounded on the evils of the Islamic code of honor. These friends were not "typical Algerians." They were literary malcontents who spent much of their time in cafes discussing how alienated they were from Algeria. Most of them came from poor families in rural areas and most of them had been disowned or denounced by their families for rebelling against Islam. They had come to Algiers lonely and displaced and had found each other. In effect they were brought together by their rebellion against...