Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Compliment. With such typically forthright guile and gall, 32-year-old Victor Zorza (rhymes with Georgia) has become a pundit with a punch among the experts on Communism who too often do all their legwork in the library. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, Zorza roamed the streets of Budapest to cover the fighting, brought out some of the most vivid reporting on the revolt. But Zorza can also slog through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers...
...home his conclusions or his quotation of significant Communist pronouncements that he often spots in the Russian press before they are released to the world. At the few parties he attends, Zorza is often backed into corners by officials and fellow newsmen who unabashedly pick his brain. The highest compliment to his skill comes from the Russian news agency Tass, which picks up his every word and relays it promptly to Moscow...
...tall goody measured 22 ft. in perimeter, weighed 650 Ibs., required 500 eggs, 90 Ibs. of butter, 120 Ibs. of sugar, was hauled to Detroit by truck in six sections. Sharing the buttercream mess with some 4,000 guests, the Governor paid his pretty wife the obvious, ultimate compliment: "I think she deserves every...
...primary, even Nixon got into the California politicking. Earlier in the week Bill Knowland had hailed Dick Nixon as the nation's "only major [Presidential] candidate on the Republican ticket." Nixon dutifully returned the compliment, urged his neighbors to vote for Knowland, "a man who refuses to knuckle down to any pressure group, regardless of the political consequence...
...Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...