Word: acclaim
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...Rather than labeling, Coles tries to let children's stories speak for themselves. He won critical and popular acclaim for his five volume work, Children of Crisis, which chronicled his interactions with Ruby Bridges and other children...
...Iran-backed guerrilla movement whose war of attrition forced Israel to leave Lebanon is the big winner in the new situation, enjoying acclaim throughout their own country and the wider Arab world as the first Arab army ever to drive Israel from Arab territory. Having won the battle for which it was created in the early '80s, the Shiite guerrilla movement now has to find a new purpose...
...record moguls decided to make Sonique's first album, Hear My Cry, the debut release of Farmclub.com the new Internet-based label they launched last winter. Before Hear My Cry landed in record racks, Sonique's music was posted on the label website, and she performed to wild acclaim on Farmclub's late-night TV show. Fans showered the site with hits...
Seven years after Booker Prize-winning Michael Ondaatje won nearly universal acclaim for The English Patient, he returns to the literary world with Anil's Ghost-a tale that verges on the same dark terrain: war. Waiting years for him to publish again, one could not imagine where on the globe Ondaatje would choose to place his pen next. The Sri Lankan-born author (transplanted to Canada) who has written evocative pieces set in the old West, the early jazz era and World War II, chooses a different time and place for this story: the Sri Lanka of the present...
...trees. Yet Chico Mendes became Brazil's environmental conscience. He not only organized his fellow tappers into a rural workers' union but also formed them into human barriers whenever chain saws and bulldozers threatened the rain forest that was their livelihood. Mendes' Gandhi-like tactics brought him global acclaim--and enemies. A week after celebrating his 44th birthday with his children and his wife Ilza, shown with his picture, he was cut down by ranchers' bullets...