Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is always a chance that opposing pitchers will find some way of getting Tony out. Nothing yet has worked -not even the ultimate weapon. Pitchers call it the "brushback"; batters call it a beanball. It is the highest compliment a pitcher can pay a hitter, and Oliva has been getting a lot of fan mail from the mound. He has eaten dirt at least a dozen times this spring. Things have reached such a stage, in fact, that Twins Manager Sam Mele has ordered retaliatory measures. "Anybody knocks Tony down, he gets knocked down himself," he tells Twins pitchers...
...same way he picks up a company that could be doing better, Simon makes a good painting more important by adding it to his collection." By hanging it in the company of centuries of masterworks, even Simon's Rembrandt gains character as a personal choice, and returns the compliment to Simon's spread from Lorenzo Monaco to De Kooning. It is no coincidence that Simon speaks like an existential philosopher and terms himself an abstract businessman: he seeks man's fulfillment of self in art and business...
...where the press has tried to appraise Johnson, the treatment has generally been superficial and routine. "Johnson is not an intellectual nor a philosopher nor an innovator," said Vita magazine in a cover story on the President. But then Vita paid Johnson a grudging compliment: "He has, however, an unequaled capacity and ability to resolve, one at a time, the little problems of daily life...
...marks are always infinitely chaotic and variable. They range from groups 2 to 6 from semester to semester; from A to E in a single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with courses...
...imply that I am mad. I consider myself justified in returning the compliment. For the policy you are pursuing in Asia may be truly said to be an insane one, and is disquieting even your most trusted allies. Wherever you go, you spread war, revolution and misery. What do you reproach me with exactly? Not to have abased myself before the dollar? To have succeeded, where so many others in this troubled region have failed? With providing my enslaved Asian brethren with a "bad example" by my pride, patriotism and independence? With placing the interests of Washington after those...