Word: honors
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Though Massachusetts has made a hypothetical commitment to honor homosexual marriages performed in states where they are practiced, this state has shied away from making gay marriage legal. Only Hawaii has given lukewarm support to homosexual marriage, having strongly considered giving the same benefits to them as heterosexual couples receive. Other states should follow Hawaii's example and exceed...
...skill that evolved into her powerful game of tennis. She admitted no equals in the segregated leagues. And soon her talents were grudgingly admitted by the whites-only tournaments. But even while winning, she was denied rooms at hotels. One refused to book reservations for a luncheon in her honor. She claimed not to care, telling TIME in 1957, "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that was a burden on my shoulders ... Now I'm playing tennis to please me, not them...
...would have believed it? People thought every thought that could be thought about Diana, but not death. She was beauty, death's antithesis. Beauty is given not only a special place of honor in the world but also a kind of permanence, as if it were an example of the tendency of nature to perfect itself, and therefore something that once achieved, lives forever...
Gibson notes people are waiting in line for hours to sign registers of condolence, and are constantly adding to the deluge of bouquets amassed outside the gates of the palace. Had the Princess of Wales been "lying in state" ? an honor reserved for heads of state and members of the royal family ? the public would not have been allowed to pass by and pay their last respects. For the record, Buckingham Palace officially describes the funeral as a "unique ceremony for a unique person. The status is irrelevant...
...stop sign for gifted actors. So Dandridge's impact as a fiery siren in the 1954 Carmen Jones--she earned the first Oscar nomination for an African American in a leading role--allowed her and all blacks to hope Hollywood might finally find a place of honor for people of color. But like Marilyn, Dandridge doubted her talent, had bad luck with the men in her life, suffered a mid-career crisis and died early (at 42, in 1965) after a barbiturate overdose...