Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been to share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about the physicality of slavery...
...week surrounding the New Year (from Dec. 26 to Jan. 3), a World Festival of Praise will be held in Suva. Millennium Hibiscus Celebrations, beginning Dec. 21, will honor Fiji's ethnic diversity, culminating in the coronation of the Hibiscus Millennium Queen in the capital at the moment when 1999 becomes...
...original mandate of the University professorships is to honor "individuals of distinction...working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties...
...special convocation to honor Nelson Mandela was a tremendously powerful and unforgettable event. President Mandela credited the University with contributing to South African anti-apartheid and democratic movements in the way that Harvard does best--through educational excellence and opportunity...
McGwire isn't the first man to save baseball in the last few years. Sometime around 1995, the phrase "good for the game" entered the vocabulary of sports commentators, and has lingered ever since to honor those admirable players who have taken it upon themselves to save the sport. Cal Ripken Jr. saved the game in 1995, when he passed Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record at 2,130. The next year, the New York Yankees again saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans...