Word: honored
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...briefly with her mother, children and grandchildren in Newton, she underwent a sextuple coronary-bypass operation in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. In her five months in the U.S., Bonner traveled to Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Miami, visiting old friends and appearing at many ceremonies in Sakharov's honor. She also paid a discreet visit to the White House, where National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her. In what little spare time she had, she wrote this book. She liked America and the Americans, but there was never any doubt in her mind that she would return...
Daniloff, similarly, said that he would someday like to return to Moscow to lay flowers once again on the grave of his ancestor, about whom he is planning a book. But Daniloff insisted that, unlike Zakharov, he had come through the experience with his honor unsmudged. Yet was not the complex arrangement merely a fig leaf disguising the swap of Daniloff for a spy? "In my case," Daniloff responded, "the investigation into the charges against me was concluded. There was no trial, and I left as an ordinary free American citizen. In Zakharov's case, there was a trial...
...took advantage of his confusion to break free. "But Rutger," I pleaded, "the celebration is in honor of the Constitution, the document that guarantees our freedom...
...members of the audience were wearing leather. It was Harvard. And these crooners were singing in honor of the College's 350th anniversary celebration...
...past month President Derek C. Bok has entertained many famous dignitaries visiting the University in honor of Harvard's 350th birthday, but yesterday some less luminous figures entertained...