Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insists that man must have some faith. Science has so changed our lives that some veneration is not surprising. It has provided concrete changes instead of abstract impossibilities. Because people were taught that only prayer could alleviate their lot, and that blessings demanded enthusiastic thanks, they now bestow this on the scientific community. Dr. Bush need not fear that the problem will be with us for long: we are becoming blase already...
...Jordan's plucky King Hussein, 29, ignored his tantrum-prone younger brother Mohammed, 24, to bestow the title of Crown Prince on Prince Hassan, a gifted Harrow graduate who is already enrolled at Oxford at the age of 17. By so doing, Hussein took the crown rights from his own infant son, three-year-old Prince Abdullah. He feared Jordanians would reject Abdullah as King because the child's mother, Princess Muna (formerly Toni Gardner), was a British commoner. After the decision was announced, Princess Muna flew abruptly to Britain for a "medical checkup," taking Abdullah...
Indeed, it would be much more realistic to bestow to mathematics and "p-chem" all the attention now lavished on organic chemistry...
...mean the American Automobile Association to millions of Americans, but to cities, states and corporations in search of money it is a supreme symbol of solvency, the highest accolade Wall Street can bestow. Armed with that much-sought but carefully dispensed rating, a borrower can attract more investors, get by with paying lower interest rates on loans, and generally profit by the blue-chip aura that prime rating bestows in the business world...
...solace to these men of the cloth, may I quote a minister who in 1796 when Jefferson became Vice President prayed, "O Lord! Wilt Thou bestow upon the Vice President a double portion of Thy grace, for Thou knowest he needs...