Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might fall as low as fourth or fifth. In the NFL draft, that means a loss of probably fifteen to twenty million dollars. The agent could not understand how could anyone be so stupid. But then again, the agent lacks the trait that distinguishes Manning from his brethren: honor...
Returning for his senior year gave Manning nothing more than one last chance to vindicate his honor. (He had earned his bachelors degree in three years.) It gave him a chance for vengeance against the teams that had beaten Tennessee. It gave him a chance to prove the claim that Tennessee was not only the best team in the Southeastern Conference, but also in the nation. It gave him a chance to prove his mettle to the Heisman voters from previous years. He failed at all but one. So what? He placed his honor over his pocketbook...
...dislike honor in this most democratic age; it smacks of royalty and nobility. It conjures images of deserved distinction, that inequality most hated by egalitarians. We agree with the sports agent: take the money and run-it's all that matters. But is it? Do we, and should we, place something like honor over physical safety and material luxury...
...Tolmie's honor came one week after the announcement of the five other award designees from Harvard. Four of those recipients were undergraduates from America, and the fifth was a Canadian graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
This year's list of nominees was typically eclectic. Should we honor the Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut and his immortal cloned sheep Dolly? What about Tiger Woods' thrilling 350-yd. drives into history? Or Alan Greenspan's steady-on-the-tiller stewardship of America's ongoing economic boom? Or--of course--the life and death of Diana, Princess of Wales...