Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain extends diplomatic recognition to other nations-as Sir Winston Churchill said, in justifying hasty recognition of the Chinese Communist regime eight years ago-"not to confer a compliment but to secure a convenience." But recognition saved none of Britain's $840 million of investments in China; and instead of an exchange of ambassadors, Britain has had to be content with a chargé d'affaires who got a humiliating run-around in the waiting rooms of Peking bureaucracy...
Produced by the Manhattan ad agency of Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc. and written by a 35-year-old bachelor girl named Judith Protas, the ad immediately drew hundreds of requests for copies. The greatest compliment came from Madison Avenue, where admen paid their respects by posting the Ohrbach's ad on their own bulletin boards. Said Walter Palmer, retired vice president of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn: "A masterpiece...
...wish to compliment TIME on its John Kennedy article. It could just as well have been titled "Away with Bigotry...
...United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal compliment on the excellence of his report, ordered that Spokesman White's press-conference remarks be included in his message...
...Andrew Tully and the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, the Queen was "a doll, a living" doll." The Post also, thought she was "a honey." Manhattan tabloid headlines called her Liz, and the Chicago Daily News's Robert E. Hoyt paid the ultimate democratic compliment: "But for the grace of God, she'd be plain Lizzie Battenberg...