Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Dick" was perfect to every last flick of the glasses and every draw on the jaw--only the indispensible pole was missing. (Speaking of Professor Merriam, whom we have now bequeathed to Company 4, we might advise those boys to notice and appreciate his ties and to compliment him on his sparkling Monday morning appearance, since these things have always made him "happy" as everyone in the second term wants...
...worked in the Chicago stockyards, taught history at Toronto University, was an ice hockey and football coach before he entered the foreign service. He was Secretary of Canada House in London when World War II broke out. When he left, the Manchester Guardian paid him a fulsome compliment: "one of the best-known Canadians in England...
...paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right,' as a great compliment to the Americans...
...other stores left over from our lunch. . . . His eyes glistened with pleasure. He stepped back, barely able to retain a grip on his spear, knapsack, and load of rations, but still in possession of his dignity. "American, him good people!" he said, with emphasis, with which high compliment he left us. It was quite the nicest compliment we could possibly have been vouchsafed...
...China, Stilwell developed one deep conviction that was also a deep compliment to the Chinese nation: he believed that the straw-sandaled, underfed Chinese soldier, properly equipped, trained and led, was the fighting equal of any other nation's soldier. He was sure that he could create a striking force with Chinese manpower and U.S. weapons that would drive the Japanese from China. After Pearl Harbor, he got the beginning of a slim chance to test this belief...