Word: honores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary invasion signified the onset of Ulster's "marching season," when the war-weary province's Catholics and Protestants celebrate-separately and often violently-past sectarian milestones. This week Protestants will don their orange sashes to parade through Belfast in honor of William of Orange's victory over England's last Catholic monarch, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Four weeks later, their opponents will parade in doleful memory of "Internment Day," the anniversary of a 1971 British military roundup where hundreds of Catholics were jailed without trials...
...with a five-o'clock shadow and an unerring ability to capitalize on the strong emotions he provoked but apparently could not feel. The classic opportunist, he was always running, always chasing after an Alger Hiss or running away from the Checkers mess, pursuing the phanton of "peace with honor" or retreating from the very real brown manila envelopes loaded with cash that his vice president used to collect every two weeks or so. As long as he was on the move-to China, to Russia, to San Clemente-he was at least predictable. It was when he slowed down...
...very great honor," Casagrande, who retired from Harvard in 1976, said yesterday. "I never expected an outstanding building such as this one to be named after...
...Jean-Baptiste Debret entitled The First Bestowal of the Legion of Honor in the Invalides. Probable cost of repairing the damage: $1 million...
Book followed book, honor followed prize until, at 44, he was awarded the Nobel...