Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushed U.S. arms "transfers" (an official term that includes military aid as well as sales) to $ 11.2 billion, for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1977. Although this was down somewhat from the preceding year ($12 billion), it still was enough to give the U.S. once again the questionable honor of being, by a very large measure, the globe's champion arms peddler. It accounted for nearly half the 1977 record worldwide armaments trade of about $24 billion. Moreover, U.S. sales are now rising?toward an estimated $13.2 billion...
...from the CIA. Last week's disclosure of Orne as the "unidentified researcher" mentioned in a University statement on CIA funding of Harvard projects raises several questions, centering not so much on the hypnosis research--which does not seem to be controversial--as on the University's decision to honor Orne's request to remain unidentified...
...Martin Buber was ceaselessly driving throughout all his richly varied life and was never self-satisfied or complacement," Walter A. Kaufmann, professor of philosophy at Princeton University said yesterday in his keynote address at a symposium held in honor of Buber's hundredth birthday...
...Duellists a young hussar lieutenant named D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), an unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces him to fight. Feraud is wounded, though not severely, and the affair seems to be well ended...
...Duels between nations take absolute precedence," one of D'Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...