Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Administration viewpoint he supported as Secretary of the Army from 1971 to 1973. Froehlke said he had opposed amnesty when the U.S. was still fighting. Now that the war is over, he passionately pleaded, amnesty is an "act that only a strong, confident and just nation can bestow. You cannot demand amnesty. You cannot threaten amnesty. Amnesty is given. The insecure, the mean, the confused cannot grant amnesty. Now is the time to begin mending the heartbreak and wounds left...
...Judge Sirica had solved our inflation and oil-shortage problems, then I would bestow upon him the Man of the Year honors...
...risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome's revenge...
...least not in the case of 14 Radcliffe women who spend a good deal of their time tugging oars on the Charles. For them Philly is the end of the Yellow Brick Road, a potential heaven where the Great Oz will bestow rewards for their perseverance...
...homage, Sisters is not a film that serves Hitchcock, except in that a comparison of his better films (and there have not been any of those in recent years) with Sisters reveals once again what a master he is of his specialized form. Too many directors try to bestow cinematic homage these days -- by borrowing of personalized shots, glimpses of old movie posters, imitation of scenes or whatever. This is esoterica which film does not need...