Word: acclaim
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...office worker popped out. Everyone laughed from sheer nervousness. At 4:25 the door opened once more and out stepped Winston Churchill, in striped pants, frock coat and topper. There was a sparse cheer or two, then suddenly the street rocked with three huge, earsplitting cheers of acclaim. A slight, sad smile crinkled the Churchillian features for a moment. Then, clamping firmly on his cigar, the Prime Minister climbed into his car and headed for Buckingham Palace...
...dreaming out loud; he had not won so much as a centimo in the lottery. Nobody seemed to know just how the phony story of his great luck had originated, but Spain's press had strong suspicions that Dominguín was ravenous for the sort of glorious acclaim he once got by cleanly killing bulls...
...Paris, Les Sorcières de Salem, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, won critical acclaim and a typically French confusion of interpretations. A few saw the story of the Salem witch hunts as an indictment of Joe McCarthy; others interpreted it as a damnation of Communist persecutions. Commented Le Monde's critic: "This ancient history of sorcery, mobile as a weather vane, can as well be directed at the East as at the West...
...faculty members who have made significant polio virus discoveries this past year received the greatest acclaim of any of the seven 1954 Nobel prize-winners at the formal presentation in Stockholm yesterday...
...Father MacEwan doesn't remember what he sang, but he says with quiet pride: "He thought I was 'guid.' I want to steer clear of any comparison with him. But he thought I was 'guid.' " So did London society, but in the midst of acclaim, Singer MacEwan felt call to the priesthood: "The spirit quickeneth where it will...