Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoor, hoor [Hear, hear]!" shouted the square-jawed Afrikaner farmers and their dutiful wives, as one speaker after another referred to the guest of honor as "a gladiator," "a saint" and "a savior." Dour and unsmiling, he sat stolidly, barely nodding his acknowledgment of the eulogies. When at last he took the platform, surrounded by the orange, white and blue posters of the National Party, which has ruled South Africa for 29 years, Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 61, could almost have been stepping to a throne...
...also born in this area, belonged to the small Ndebele tribe which came under the "protection" of the Boers when they were threatened by the warlike Zulus. Says Van Tonder: "My people saved the Ndebele from extermination." Last weekend there was a three-day feast and tribal dancing in honor of Mahlangu's 13-year-old daughter, who was welcomed into adulthood by delegations of Ndebele from nearby farms and villages. The Mahlangus' house of thick adobe, which has running water but no electricity, had been exuberantly painted in bold white-and-yellow designs. Two oxen and four...
...cartel's operations are being probed in other courtrooms too. In Richmond, Va., federal court, 15 of the nation's largest electric utilities are suing Westinghouse Electric, the nation's largest supplier of uranium to private industry. They seek to compel Westinghouse to honor contracts to deliver 65 million Ibs. of uranium at an average price of $10 per Ib. Doing so could cost Westinghouse as much as $2.6 billion. To avoid that loss, Westinghouse is using the same argument as United Nuclear, that it was victimized by the cartel. Meanwhile, Westinghouse has filed its own suit...
...great honor to be able to work with the guys on this team," Harvard's 105th football captain said yesterday. "Everybody's so close on our team that my job should be easy. People really want to put out--not for themselves, but for everyone else," he added...
...final teams share a $1000 prize, but most students compete for honor and practice, Beaton said...