Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acclaim from a Lifer. In the last decade, Warden Duffy has never abandoned his belief that San Quentin can rehabilitate as well as punish. He established a broad program of vocational training. He was the first warden to let prisoners listen to radios in their cells. He encouraged athletics, inaugurated a prison newspaper to which he contributed a regular column ("Facts-Not Rumors"), established the first prison chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, let prisoners sell handiwork such as belts and wallets...
Practice for Perfection. The object of this superheated, though ephemeral, acclaim is a 20-year-old senior from Maumee (pop. 5,500), Ohio, who hardly looks the part of a triple-threat halfback. Off the football field, he is undistinguished and indistinguishable from hundreds of other Princeton undergraduates with their crew cuts and carefully sloppy clothes. He does not feel that he must die for dear old Princeton. A serious youth, he rates his serious interests in this order: 1) friends, 2) studies, 3) football. He plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting...
Elizabeth's dashing husband relieved some of the sedate stiffness of the tour. A world-traveled navy veteran, five years older than his wife, Philip was completely relaxed and took the acclaim in stride. His whispered asides helped ease Elizabeth's nervousness, sometimes brought a spontaneous smile to the Princess' face at taut moments. Philip's warm interest in the people and sights made him a solid hit with the crowds along the Canadian tour route. U.S. correspondents who traveled with the royal train fully expected that the handsome duke would also shine in Washington. Said...
...Washington rumor that will not down bobbed up again last week, with a new twist and from a new source. Secretary of State Acheson will quit before Oct. 1 on the wave of acclaim that is expected to roll out of the Korean truce and the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, reported the pro-Acheson New York Post. Reported successor: W. Averell Harriman, who is getting his buildup for the job in Iran. The White House put out its usual comment: "Nothing to it." But on Capitol Hill many top Democrats continue to think that Dean Acheson will...
Such moviemakers as Russia's Sergei Eisenstein-who got in trouble by making Czar Ivan the Terrible look too terrible-could have told Sun that the party line is not easily threaded through a movie projector. Just as Sun's acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression...