Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case. He had overlooked some elementary facts and twisted others out of shape. Then Byrd hit his peroration. Humphrey had tried to dismiss the committee as just a "publicity medium," he snapped. "As the Senator from Minnesota is a publicity expert himself, his statement could be regarded as a compliment...
...Death of a Salesman, preferred the gloom of museums to the gloom of theaters and the zephyrs of chamber music to the hurricanes of opera. China's Dr. P. C. Chang thought Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics were delightfully fresh but could not pay the same compliment to the Metropolitan Opera's chorus...
...found the young New York City Ballet Company "less disciplined" than the crack Sadler's Wells. But the dancers were "more electric," "more rhythmic," and "less inhibited' for some of the Rimbauderies he had in mind. Says Ashton in what was obviously meant to be a compliment: "You have to pull such actions and gestures out of our dancers; yours understand immediately and express them easily...
...Edward Wagenknecht in his introduction to this collection-"We find, inevitably, the things that were destined for us." Thus, Wagenknecht and Britain's Walter de la Mare have proved to be made for each other. In fact, Wagenknecht paid his idol what is perhaps the highest compliment that can be given an author: he took him along to read on his honeymoon...
...large gallery was on hand for the contest. China's delegate, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, was in the Security Council chair because it was his month, by rotation, to preside. He recognized the Soviet delegate, Jacob A. Malik. Delegate Malik did not return the compliment: he said he did not recognize Dr. Tsiang's right to preside or even to sit at the Council table. Dr. Tsiang, as a Chinese Nationalist, was just a "person who represents nobody," said Malik...