Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news from Guinea that the Ghanaian ambassador and his staff were being held under house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...appear to be publishing a middle-aged magazine for middle-aged readers," scoffed one reader after a look at the advance galleys of a new quarterly, The Public Interest. On thinking it over, Editors Daniel Bell, 46, and Irving Kristol, 45, took the crack as a compliment. "Young people tend to be enchanted by glittering generalities," they wrote in their first issue last fall; "older people are inclined to remember rather than to think; and middle-aged people, seasoned by life but still open to the future, do seem to us-in our middle years-to be the best...
...businessmen who carp about constantly working under the gun ought to get a look at Fred Eaton. On the roof above his modern office in Caracas, Venezuela, booted militiamen with submachine guns patrol 24 hours a day. They are watching for Communist terrorists who, in a perverse kind of compliment, have focused on Eaton's company as a prime example of Yanqui capitalism. It is Sears, Roebuck of Venezuela, and all of its 13 stores have been the targets of bombs or burning. Though nothing has happened lately, Eaton's workers each night before closing have to examine...
...aswim in impastes of Christmas-color oils, turned to the great, grey, shambling man and asked timidly, "Aren't you Mr. Hofmann?" With a beam, he nodded, replied, "And of course you paint yourself." For him there was no higher activity and he meant it as a return compliment...
Left-Wing Boy Scout. In Rexroth's world, people call him "Duke," a term used in hobo jungles for the classy fellow in a sub-society of declassed men. "It's no great compliment," says Rexroth. "The most affected girl in a whorehouse is usually called 'Duchess...