Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appease the discontent-and to keep their own jobs-many labor leaders have been forced to abandon responsible restraint at the bargaining table. "It used to be considered a compliment to be called a labor statesman," says Charles Levey, a vice president of the Building Service Employees International. "But if they call you that now, it means you're finished...
There was only one very close match for the whole day, and it was Harvard's Morris who came out on top. Coach Jack Barnaby called Morris' comeback "One of the greatest exhibitions of squash play I've ever seen." That's quite a compliment, coming from a veteran coach of 25 years...
Julius Boros got the sort of backhanded compliment that caddies give big tippers: he was picked as the best man out of traps with a sand wedge. "If I hadn't practiced," said Boros modestly, "I couldn't possibly have won. There are many fine wedge players in the game, and none of them got there the easy...
...night from the window of his hotel room. When the portrait was nearly complete, Mr. Chandler took a look and found it a good likeness of Mrs. Chandler. Then, possibly thinking also of his own portrait, he told her in reassuring tones: "Henry, you know, never flatters." Returning the compliment, Painter Koerner, who generally finds men easier to deal with ("Women are more critical"), pronounced both the Chandlers good subjects...
...expensive picture book is probably a fixed Christmas institution for the foreseeable future. As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell. Both price tag and poundage are an unarguably solid demonstration of the giver's regard. The presumed esthetic content is an implied compliment to the recipient's cultivation. Yet it can appear to be absorbed just by leafing through it; and duty done, the thing lends its own cachet as it lies there on the coffee table. Of course, for those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste...