Word: honorables
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After the council presentation, Dudley residents led Handy outside to the front yard of the second house on Mass. Ave., where they had planted a sapling tree in her honor...
...said the decision to plant a maturing tree was, to her "the best memory, best gift that anyone could honor me with because it's something living...
Originally, alums from all over the country were planning to fly to Cambridge for a large gathering in Handy's honor. Co-op students have also received donations of money and presents for Handy from former residents...
Here's how peace will spark upheaval: Middle Eastern governments will no longer be able to justify huge military expenditures (often made to secure their own rule) or defer public demands for more freedoms and better living conditions by invoking border defense, territorial mandates, nationalism or cultural honor. So they'll spend the next quarter-century confronting--or being confronted by--the forces already changing the rest of the world...
...have thought of a way to honor history while at the same time carrying the art form of presidential campaigning into the post-Clinton era. In the 19th Century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office, the thought being that to do so would be not only immodest but also a kind of irrelevant intrusion upon the public's deliberations. Besides, the party was taking care of business. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio...