Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshmen are presumably aware of the alterations and improvements the revised package will bestow upon the Quad. But this year the housing office will have to assign from 40 to 60 more unwilling sophomores to the Quad than last year. The other empty spaces opened up as Quad freshmen move out will be partly filled by transfer students; in fact a plan to house all transfer students at the Quad is now under consideration...
...Simpson is required to run around in a priest's collar and talk in an imbecilic simper. Doubtless the hero sympathizes with Lee Strasberg, who appears to be so affronted by his dialogue that he whispers all of it in virtually inaudible silence, and wishes to bestow on the other players the gift of still deeper silence...
...hear it for Memphis Bishop Carroll T. Dozier [Dec. 20]. In one fell swoop, he raised divorced Catholics' morale sky high while simultaneously exposing some shadowy church law to the critical judgment of daylight. Dozier's decision to bestow general forgiveness of sins on some 12,000 Christians is big news today. In Christ's time it would have been a no-hum event. For Pete's sake, Christ came on earth to forgive...
...names−YFG-50, Boron XT and the XRC−conjure up visions of supersonic test planes or supercharged racing cars. But the sobriquets belong to tennis racquets, crafted in strange shapes of exotic materials, and designed to bestow court greatness on weekend hackers. In search of a bigger "sweet spot," more power and control, manufacturers have imbedded boron fibers in an epoxy matrix, reinforced nylon throat pieces with quartz, turned to the builders of nuclear reactors for ultrasonic welding techniques and altered the spacing of strings. The physics laboratories at Princeton where Albert Einstein once worked have been used...
This Christmas, for example, he and she may bestow upon themselves a $286,125 weekend at the Hyatt resort on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island. At that price, they can have the place entirely to themselves or else share it with 720 of their most intimate pals. For a couple with less time and fewer dollars but more friends, a 135-min. private performance of Circus Vargas, billed as the world's largest tented show, can be had for $47,500, popcorn and cotton candy for 5,000 guests included. For only $2,500 more, Houston...