Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shopping Around. With their overseas push barely under way, the Japanese are fearful that other countries' automakers, particularly Detroit, will soon try to return the compliment in force. So far, a foreign invasion has been held off by high (up to 40%) auto-import tariffs and a stiff capital-investment law that limits foreign ownership to 50% of any new venture and 15% of any existing Japanese firm. Japan is under strong world pressure to ease that law, and Ford is said to be shopping around for permanent residences...
...motives for bedecking someone's house are as various as the names for it. Captains of losing football teams, unpopular girls and teachers take it as a sign of hate. Pretty and popular girls, on the other hand, consider it a compliment from a secret admirer. Often they are right. A Birmingham, Mich., high school boy puts it this way: "If a girl is outstanding, you kind of like to make her house outstanding." Q.E.D...
...compliment TIME on its dignified and accurate story about "sex change" operations...
...time, the Collected Poems of Ezra Pound are chosen to show that the giver is an intellectual, not because the recipient might actually enjoy them. The situation is happily reversed if it is the recipient who is struggling to prove his intellectual status-then the book becomes a compliment, where Valley of the Dolls would have been an insult. This is particularly true with very good-looking girls, who always want to be taken seriously for their intellect (plain girls must never be given books, except possibly love poems...
...just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical book editor as "an odd blend of schoolmarm and Jewish mother...