Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Utah's Lucy Redd: "Viet Nam is the No. 1 problem with our women. A lot of them are going to vote against the Administration." The Democratic ladies themselves displayed an unnerving degree of adoration for the President. Engulfing him in the White House, they jostled feverishly to bestow coos and kisses on Lyndon Johnson, knocking furniture and objets d'art pell-mell in a mob scene reminiscent of Andrew Jackson...
...COPE-backed candidates elected to Congress, only 17 were Republicans. Labor's political experts are paying particular attention to the reelection of 51 Democratic freshmen, most of them from swing districts that were won in the L.B.J. landslide. To preserve some aura of bipartisanship, COPE is expected to bestow its benediction on three old Republican Senate friends: New Jersey's Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
...pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried humans ("Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it"), and produces Poetry with alarming regularity...
...clear that Joey will never bestow himself on anyone...
PLEASURE OF RUINS, text by Dame Rose Macaulay. 286 pages. Thames & Hudson distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $17.50. On none of her 30 books did the late Dame Rose Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny...