Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
From then on, Matisse's art changed only superficially, yet met with steadily growing acceptance and eventually with acclaim. He became a millionaire, and the world's great museums vied for the honor of exhibiting his work. Shining land, sea and streetscapes lay just outside his tall, half-shuttered windows at Nice; he brought them indoors onto canvas. His scores of "odalisques"-with a bosomy local girl posing amid a few harem props -were among his best-known pictures, not so much cheesecake as souffle, not so much woman's form as woman's charm...
...realize that such a large crowd was not expected, why we don't know. With the amount of publicity given to this lecture and the great acclaim recently given to Teynbee himself, it would seem logical to expect a greater crowd...
...could go coroneted to acclaim your Queen in Westminster Abbey with the stain of divorce on you," wrote an angry Sunday Express columnist last year, "but you cannot, if so stained, have the duke's permission to cheer her horse at Ascot." Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...