Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbled badly; and Rocket's Magic quickly fell behind. Bugs Alive led all the way. "For the last 100 yards I just put my feet on the dashboard," laughed Jockey Jerry Burgess. Owner Shebester was more restrained. "The reason I'm pleased," he said, "is the honor and prestige that goes with winning this race." To say nothing of the first-place purse...
...Responsibilities (CRR). As its name indicates, the CUE deals with problems concerning undergraduate education. The ACSR makes recommendations on how Harvard should vote in the corporations in which it owns stock, and also on how Harvard should invest its money. The CRR was designed to be a sort of "honor court" in which students who had violated some aspect of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (basically the Harvard honor code) would be judged by fellow students and members of the faculty. But students have refused to serve on the CRR because they consider it to be a kangaroo court...
This is the sort of private-eye period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. How can anyone take such an enterprise seriously, after all, when the detective runs around in a trench coat six inches too short and 25 years...
...signs of new diplomatic motion as far back as last April. One evening a few weeks after the end of Kissinger's earlier try at a peace agreement, American Ambassador Hermann Eilts failed to show up at a Cairo dinner party where he was to be guest of honor. Wynn learned that Eilts had been abruptly called back to Washington. Eilts' trip turned out to be the first of seven, shuttling peace proposals between Anwar Sadat and the State Department...
...There was a big swimming pool out in back, a pool table in one room, and a handcarved teak bust that the host volunteered was worth $250,000. In the living room hung an original oil portrait of Provenzano's mother, which he said he had commissioned "to honor her." Noting that the photographer was sweating as he left, Tony Pro remarked with a laugh: "Hey, you think you weren't gonna get out of here alive or something...