Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's lean, lanky Senator Harry P. Cain has been called "the No. 1 real-estate lobbyist in America," and says he considers it a compliment. Last week Cain proved his claim to the title...
Last week, year-old Quick took seven-column newspaper ads to compliment itself on attaining a circulation of 850,000, although it was still in & out of the red from week to week. The Cowles brothers' dehydrated news and picture weekly (4 by 6 in.) got a more spontaneous form of flattery last week: Newsweek (circ. 805,461) launched an experimental Quick-sized imitation called People Today. Its editor: Allen Chellas, 39, an alumnus of Parade and Holiday...
...beaming smile and a warm handclasp, he welcomed Secretary of State Dean Acheson back from the fruitful Western powers' conference in London. "I want to congratulate you," the President told Acheson. "I think it was the most successful international conference since Potsdam." The congratulations were heartfelt, but the compliment was questionable : it was at Potsdam, Mr. Truman's only meeting with Stalin, that free elections were promised to Poland, and Germany was pledged to joint occupation by the four friendly victors...
TIME deserves a compliment for not showing any political preference in its choices...
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, President of Chile, is the leader of a country whose 5½ million people are known as the yanquis of South America-a mildly left-handed compliment to their drive and thoroughness. The U.S. has returned the compliment by giving Chile more financial aid than any other South American government. This week, accompanied by his handsome wife Rosa (nicknamed "Mitty") and daughter Sylvia, 51-year-old President Gonzalez was scheduled to arrive in Washington for a state visit...