Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chuckles I got out of that were nothing compared with the belly laughs I experienced when Connerly chose Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to announce the creation of a new organization to take his anti-affirmative-action show on the road--in honor of the slain civil rights leader. "Dr. King personifies the quest for a color-blind society," Connerly explains, "and I felt that it would be a great symbol to give birth to an organization that wants the nation to resume that journey on the birthday of the man who symbolizes it." Connerly claims...
...lines from Al Franken's hilarious book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: "Limbaugh presented...disinformation that was devoured whole by a studio audience of rabid--but extraordinarily straight-laced--right-wing yahoos. These are the fans who voluntarily--hell, gleefully--call themselves 'dittoheads' in honor of their ability to blindly and uncritically agree with everything that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth...
...honor student, her parents are hoping that she can win a college scholarship but are worried that her new school may not be providing adequate preparation for the next level...
...order was phoned in four days in advance, and it sounded like one that any ambitious pizza deliverer would jump at: 40 large pies to Paseo Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, for a midday party for honor-roll students. To the school's surprise, Pizza Hut, the biggest pizza purveyor in town--and in the country--turned it down, saying the area was unsafe. A local chain, Westport Pizza, was more than happy to fill the order. Says honors dance major Glenndalynn Frazier, 17: "I knew we were supposed to have Pizza Hut, but it didn't stop us from...
...soldier's existence. Guns, bombs, land mines; they're all hazards which are very real. But according to the government, there's another menace which is often overlooked: Girlie mags. In an attempt to eliminate this scourge, the government last May passed a measure called the Military Honor and Decency Act of 1996. But a federal judge, ruling the measure violates rights under the First Amendment, today wiped the act from the books, effectively permitting smut to remain on the stands in military stores. As Judge Shira A. Scheindlin put it: "Society is better served by protecting our cherished right...