Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...byline in Mad magazine. Boston papers, the Herald included, rank among the dreariest in the land, a reputation enriched every year. One measure of Boston journalism is that the Herald hired Frazier in 1961 to replace four comic strips. No doubt the paper considered the exchange a compliment to their...
Lamour himself now spends much of his time lecturing away from home or escorting distinguished visitors over dams and through fields and orchards. Nikita Khrushchev, after such a visit, paid the Midi man a cherished compliment. "The man who astonished me the most in all France," said he, "was Philippe Lamour. He's the only Frenchman who could stand...
...northern Germany. Despite the many problems, Ende opened new mines, modernized the ore processing, put up steel mills, branched into oil drilling. Since Ende took over, Salzgitter's annual sales have increased by an astonishing 475%. though they are leveling off this year. ''You have to compliment Ende for his drive," says a competitor. "Look at what he has been able to accomplish with that lousy...
...wish to compliment you for the straightforward and unemotional appraisal of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...