Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family honor and masculine pride depend upon the respectability of women in the family. If a girl gets a bad reputation her whole family is disgraced. Moreover she forfeits her right to a respectable husband. Slights to family honor or masculine pride are the most frequent causes of vehement argument and violent crime. Once, while dancing with some friends, a man who was not part of our group asked me to dance. Midway through the dance I was yanked from the floor by one of my friends. I had committed a grave offense by not asking the group's permission...
...selection race will be much more important than the separate preferential vote, commonly called the beauty contest. But the Democratic competition for 155 delegates stands to be inconclusive. Reason: nowhere on the ballot is the name of the most important Democrat in the election-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. His Honor, aiming to be a major broker at the convention, has filed slates of candidates committed to a favorite son, Senator Adlai Stevenson III. The Senator is not actively stumping, but so magic is his name in Illinois-and so great is Daley's clout-that Stevenson should pick...
...soundly beat Ronald Reagan, with 62% of the vote. The victory helped swell the President's momentum in Florida, so dismaying Reagan that he sharply attacked Ford for the first time. At a news conference in Orlando, the Californian said he was not questioning Ford's "decency, honor and patriotism." But, Reagan charged, "Gerald Ford . . . has shown neither the vision nor the leadership necessary to halt and reverse the diplomatic and military decline of the U.S." A reporter asked Reagan if he were violating his promise to abide by the G.O.P.'s "Eleventh Commandment" -thou shalt...
...Sino-American relations, which Kissinger did much to restore after a 23-year break, have gone from sweet to sour. Some diplomats insist that Richard Nixon's invitation from Peking was designed not only as an honor for the ex-President but also as a slap at Kissinger for appeasing the Russians...
Canadians who wanted one of their own countrymen to open the Olympic Games this summer have been grumbling ever since their government tapped Britain's Queen Elizabeth for the honor. Now, at least, they can claim victory in a minor skirmish over the Queen's visit. It seems that the royal yacht Britannia, which will carry Her Majesty to Montreal, has old-style lavatories that empty directly into the waves. Royal flush or no, that is a violation of the St. Lawrence Seaway's antipollution laws, ruled Canada's Ministry of Transport. Denying the Royal Navy...