Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists always impervious to the U.N.'s moral writ. In the battle for men's minds, they cannot afford to be. Soviet troops pulled out of Iran in 1946 soon after the Security Council cocked an eye at their presence. Russian delegates pay the U.N. the compliment of hypocrisy, invariably attempting to justify their conduct on the basis of the U.N. charter; Red China seeks desperately to join the U.N. club...
Prompted by an unprecedented press campaign (in which Pravda devoted a third of its space to Nehru, including a Page One picture, a rare compliment to a non-Communist foreigner), the crowd released white doves, threw bouquets into Nehru's lap, or broke the sidelines to heap strings of lilacs on Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (no kin of the late great Mahatma, who is described in the latest Soviet Encyclopedia as an enemy of the people...
...both as men and as writers, and, when the shoe fits (as in the case of Gibbon), as dullish people redeemed by works of genius. Quite clearly, Kronenberger's ideal is 18th century England, where style "was not just a matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally...
...skiing. From America's lively leisure has evolved a new, home-grown fashion, as different from Paris fashion as apple pie from crepes suzette. Paris can still claim its title as the custom-fashion capital of the world. But the French still design for Veblenesque leisure. Their clothes compliment the designer, whereas America's are made to compliment the wearer. A young Manhattan mother put it simply: "When I get dressed up, I have little time to make up to the dress; I want the dress to make...
...aged woman proudly recalled that a high school boy friend had called her ravishing." What a middle-aged woman is doing with a high school boy friend anyway Mr. Davis seems willing to leave to N. V. Peale. But the principle is sound and if you should want to compliment a young lady, he is full of tips...