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Word: compliment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vanishing Island does not make the U.S. a laughingstock in Asia and the Middle East, then I'll eat the remainder of my TIME subscriptions ... I must compliment TIME on its unbiased report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...must compliment you on your Aug. 1 cover. At close inspection the faces of these four famous individuals tell a story not only of themselves but of the countries they represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

After a wartime layoff, during which he served as an infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bounding Basques | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...With the July 18 cover . . . you have paid a compliment to our intelligence and cultural maturity . . . An artist simplifies in order to gain breadth and strength (something a photograph never does) . . . Please give us more-we are ready and hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

THERE is something Churchillian about President Eisenhower's sweeping plan for peace-and we could pay him no greater compliment than to say that. It is startlingly simple, but many great ideas are simple in their essentials. Its acceptance would mean more to the world than the complicated tangles of all the non-aggression pacts and guarantees that have been proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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