Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide, Goldwater squeaked in by 7,000 votes...
...nightclub singer and composer, Domenico, 30, enjoyed modest acclaim in Italy before he put together...
...root of Bigeard's troubles lay the publicity that his military triumphs had won for him. Had the tall, sinewy colonel been a graduate of St. Cyr (France's West Point), his superiors might have put up with him. But they begrudged such acclaim to a "jumped-up ranker" who perennially poked fun at "generals with middle-aged spread...
Dior's Designer Yves Saint-Laurent, who had helped set the mode with his trapeze look last winter, scored no such acclaim last week. While almost every other designer kept hemlines at the knees, Saint-Laurent lowered them some five inches to just 15 inches above the floor. No one else showed any signs of going along. In fact, one U.S. buyer who ordered some Dior dresses specified that they be delivered four inches shorter...
...honors go to Miss Page for her portrayal of the divorcee and the spinster (which Margaret Leighton attempted so inadequately in the pre-Broadway tryout here two years ago). For some reason I had never seen her act before, and it is a pleasure to report that all the acclaim and awards she has received are well deserved indeed...