Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government would furnish some limited evidence that Helms indeed recognizes the gravity of his misdeeds. Otherwise, the nation will be left with one lingering image of Richard Helms, that of a jaunty one-time Nixon hatchet man who views his nolo contendere cop-out as a "badge of honor," not the scarlet letter of "disgrace and shame" Judge Parker so eloquently described...
...West Point graduate, I found your report on the recent investigation of the military academy [Oct. 10] to be somewhat misleading. Specifically, the "classic dilemma [of] whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation" when taken out of context is sure to be misunderstood. No cadet has ever been found guilty of an honor violation by simply having some proscribed item hidden in his laundry bag. Indeed, I employed that tactic myself on numerous occasions when looking for a good hiding place. If, however, a cadet lied about such an item, then he would be guilty...
...mountain after the champion of the gold standard, then Presidential Candidate William McKinley. The name stuck and gradually worked its way into maps and books. Now there is virtually no resistance in the state to the proposed name change. Few Alaskans feel that the long-dead President deserves the honor. Says Anchorage Daily News Publisher Kay Fanning: "McKinley never got near...
...British created the sectarian problem in Ulster; they have perpetuated it; and now they must solve it. Whatever sway the paramilitaries have in their respective communities, they cannot claim to arbitrate the politics of Northern Ireland. That unenviable honor belongs to the British government. No one doubts that it can determine the future fate of the province, whether it lapses into outright civil war or retakes the road to peace...
What the Bruins don't have is a share of the Ivy lead,o an honor currently shared by the Crimson, Yale and Dartmouth. With its two losses, Brown stands deadlocked with Princeton and Penn for fourth, fifth and sixth places (or however you view things like this), but since only one game separates six teams, it is true that in the words of everyone and his tutor, "Anything can happen in the Ivy League." Now isn't that nice...