Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, General Eisenhower was "astonished." Said he: "I count it an additional compliment that some refused to be dismayed by the long Eisenhower name and simply wrote in Ike." Then he sent a cable to Friend Mintener: "To you, personally, and to the more than 100,000 Minnesotans who paid me the great compliment of writing my name on the ballot, I send a very humble 'thank...
Eleanor Roosevelt received an honorary Litt.D. degree from the University of Delhi, and a compliment from former U.N. Representative Sir Senegal Rau. Said he: Indian visitors to the U.S. are impressed by two things. "First is Niagara Falls, and second is Mrs. Roosevelt...
Virulent, cajoling, sarcastic, he went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites.") At the end of the third concert, the musicians joined in the applause, tapped their bows against their violins and cellos in compliment...
...that what he saw in nature was "the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone," though what he painted was hardly so chill or so simple. The cubists took their cue from his words, called him a father of modern art. Cézanne would not have appreciated the intended compliment; theories bored him, and his pictures were translations of what he saw, not demonstrations of what he thought...