Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they knew was that they would die," said San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros. To honor the doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the hands of 4,000 Mexican troops. Little more than a month later, General Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans, and Texas had won its independence. The revelers heralded the Alamo's last stand with a deafening musket salute. But the sesquicentennial celebration...
...airline industry, the code of pride and honor that has kept most pilots and air-traffic controllers sober over the years may be seriously eroding. In September 1984 a pilot for a major international airline called 800-COCAINE, a New Jersey-based hot line that provides treatment referral and information. He said that he had been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs...
...finalists for the honor have been chosen by balloting of all Division I coaches. The winner will be selected by an anonymous 12-member panel consisting of representatives of daily newspapers, monthly magazines, the electronic media, the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, NCAA coaches, and National Hockey League scouts...
...glad to get the honor," the 5-ft., 6-in. Keffer said. "All that really matters, though, is that...
...Barb is very deserving of this honor," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "It's more difficult to get recognition as a guard, but Barb proved [to the selection committee] that she is the total player...