Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prize Nelson Mandela spoke in a special ceremony in front of 25,000 in Tercentenary Theatre. He became the third person in Harvard's history to receive an honorary degree in a ceremony not linked to Commencement or a celebration of a University anniversary. "To join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened convocation...holds great symbolic significance," Mandela said. "The name of an African is now added to those illustrious leaders of the Western world." In his speech, Mandela asked the world to "combat and eradicate its disparities...
...Winston Churchill made honorary Doctor of Laws...
...compelling indictment is not of China but of the U.S. Lax security at national weapons labs virtually invited Beijing to pick their pockets. For years officials ignored complaints that the labs were wide open, and no Administration bothered to bolster their feeble protective measures. "On the security breaches," says Winston Lord, former U.S. ambassador to China, "I say, Shame...
...race day in Bristol, 120,000 fans walk into the stadium wearing roughly half a million racing-related logos. The Winston people are giving away cigarettes. The cars are burning fossil fuel. The noise is obscene. There's a Remington firearms car, a Winston No Bull car, a Skoal car. The smells of raw horsepower, burned rubber and expectorated snuff are cooked by a wicked...
...days at the track would be followed by even faster nights ends up a wreck too. There's a traveling ministry on the NASCAR circuit, and drivers and their families attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...