Word: acclaim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most impressive, perhaps, was Turner's 1972-74 stint as president of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., which won him acclaim for his reforms of the curriculum. He jettisoned what he regarded as outdated and irrelevant courses in strategy and geopolitics and invited ideologically diverse civilian experts to lecture. In a 1973 address at the college, he warned that if military minds did not shape up fast, "the think tanks will be doing our thinking for us." He spurred far-ranging brainstorming seminars on how recent international developments affect U.S. strategy. One topic, for example...
Such roots and obligations appear to have given the author a sensible attitude toward her work. She has avoided the dangers of early acclaim that might have thrust her into the footsteps of such belles of Southern lettres as Flannery O'Conner and Eudora Welty. Instead, Grau has usually played to her strength - a cautious application of talent to the Southern traditions and people she knows best...
Prime Minister of Britain from 1955 to 1957, Eden served his country as Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when...
...Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
...Fatah leader Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian military and political assertiveness of April 1975, which touched off civil war in Lebanon, seems far away. Arafat's enforced meekness is even further removed from 1974, when he stood before the United Nations General Assembly, riding the crest of Third World acclaim and proclaiming the ascendancy of the Palestinian liberation movement. But resurgent optimism about a final Arab-Israeli peace still focuses on Arafat, that mysterious figure in the middle, and the central question has become: will he accept half a loaf for the Palestinians...