Word: honored
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...It’s important to find the names and honor the patriots who achieved our nation’s independence,” Joseph W. Dooley, chairman of the SAR’s membership committee, said...
Maria Cole, a member of the Maryland Toaping Castle chapter of the DAR, has traced her ancestry back to two black Revolutionary War soldiers. She said she joined the DAR in 2004 because she felt that the “very least” she could do was honor her ancestors by joining the organization...
...four or five. Sure, the robbers have bragging rights - this was Britain's biggest ever heist - but the unprecedented size of the haul means they faced unprecedented problems. Reducing the bulk became all the more imperative when a ?1.5 million ($2.75 million) reward was offered. There is no honor among thieves. Next, the crooks needed to separate the money from the crime. In the old days, if you sold cocaine in Spain, you wound up with pesetas, which pointed to where the crime was committed. So you prewashed your loot into, say, German marks, and from there moved into dollars...
...pulp fiction; they cogently argued that Hammett and Chandler, and Thompson and David Goodis and others, were worth cherishing (and that writers like Wilson, who's forgotten today as a novelist, weren't.) Yet in this rush to validate the pulps, Spillane was curiously forgotten - a prophet without honor. But with profit. Those royalties kept rolling...
...surprisingly, for many of the same ghetto residents he calls "my people," Zidane's head-butt of Marco Materazzi was a source of pride rather than shame. Kids on the streets of France's banlieue told reporters that defending his honor was more important than the World Cup. Indeed, Zidane's mother may have been speaking for more than just her family when she told a British newspaper, "Our whole family is deeply saddened that Zinedine's career should end with a red card but at least he has his honor. Some things are bigger than football...