Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opinion of Cuba. After the last 15 minutes of the session, a waiter brought in more refreshments. Cigarette packages were passed around and two new boxes of cigars were opened. To complete the protocol, representatives from the Cuban officials and from our delegation stood up to exchange thanks and compliment one another...
Your section on jealousy is a dilly. You know, the part where you say that if you find out somebody's been messing with your mate, you can react with pride at the compliment to your taste and luck instead of carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle...
...great friend, Lawrence of Arabia, and the only character who seems to have any control over his surroundings. While those around him speechify and sermonize, he runs the army outpost with superhuman efficiency and good nature. His totally incompetent commanding officer pays him what sounds like Shaw's ultimate compliment: "I see this man Meek doing everything that is natural to a complete man." Meek has found what the Patient has begun to search for: the satisfying responsibilities of a useful job with none of the restrictive trappings of high rank and class...
...advisory board of Cabinet officers and other Government officials that makes policy recommendations to the President. This would be a logical starting role for a man who served 15 years as Governor of New York. As Washington Post Columnist George Will put it last week in a somewhat backhanded compliment, Rockefeller's governorship was "a protracted seminar on the ability of problems to resist solutions, and the ability of solutions to aggravate problems ... The knowledge of what doesn't work is invaluable in Government, and Rockefeller...
...38th President has not neglected that quality. To be called a square or a straight is not exactly a compliment in some circles, where the words imply a certain woodenness and an unadventurous approach to life. But they suggest something more as well: loyalty, honesty, diligence, patience, a fear of the Lord and what the ancient Romans used to call pietas. Gerald Rudolph Ford has all these qualities...