Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Fine, not a man to pay a political compliment lightly, says: "I always had supreme confidence in Brownell's word. He's the type of fellow who grows on you." Brownell never went on the convention floor. He sat in his hotel room listening, thinking, remembering. A close associate says that his greatest asset then was his memory of the two previous conventions. He knew who had stood up under stress, who was a mild opportunist, who was a waverer, who had given and broken his word, who had a grievance and what the grievance...
...came to Innsbruck to extract by pickax a few timid and grudging facts from a fretful hermit, and what you got was Niagara from the Ancient Mariner.' He exhorted me to become a headmaster some day - which, coming from a teacher like himself, I took to be a compliment. He remembered Barton warmly, but as far as I remember had no recommendation for his becoming a headmaster- field probably crowded." Baker's 15,000-word report provided the bulk of the additional material Barton needed to write his story - the fifth cover story he has done for TIME...
...appointment is at once a compliment and a blow to Harvard," according to David E. Owen, professor of History. Owen added that "although the silver lining hunters may find sufficient consolation in knowing that German problems will be in able hands, this is the gravest kind of less from our parochial point of view...
...Judaism. I have been a member of this organization since 1945; am on the National Advisory Board, the Chicago Executive Board and the School of Judaism Board. I consider this article to be a fair, accurate and complete statement of facts on a rather controversial subject, and want to compliment you . . . for your treatment...
That is a fine compliment to TIME. Congratulations...