Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwater, of course, was doing his bit for party unity; he even implored New Yorkers to vote for Incumbent Senator Kenneth Keating, notwithstanding the fact that Republican Keating has so far not returned the compliment. Barry's fleeting sojourn in New York, in fact, pointed up his effort of last week to smooth the jagged edges of his public image...
...commissioners compliment Secret Service agents for their courage under fire in Dallas, agree that some of the agency's advance security precautions were "thorough and well executed." But in the Secret Service's most important job?that of identifying and thwarting potential assassins?the Commission declares the agency to be "seriously deficient." Incredible as it may seem, the Secret Service did not inspect the Texas School Book Depository before President Kennedy's visit, did not know that Oswald worked there, did not even know who Oswald...
...likes to think of himself as a social historian whose principal medium happens to be fiction. When Historian Allan Nevins said that no one could really understand the U.S. of the 1930s without reading O'Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece of reportorial fiction based on a playgirl's mysterious death. Last week, the journalist in Novelist O'Hara was assured...
...would like to compliment TIME on the objective and factual article dealing with meningitis at Fort Ord [Aug. 14]. The story's timeliness, accuracy and fairness were in journalism's best tradition. The restrictions discussed in the article are still in effect, and the command continues to take every preventive action against the disease. ALFRED B. FRAZIN Lieutenant Colonel Information Officer U.S. Army Training Center Fort Ord, Calif...
...building shows how the architect excels by pleasing the client as well as himself. Saarinen's client, Architecture Buff William Hewitt, chairman of Deere, delivered the ultimate compliment by hesitating to talk about the building - it would be "like a beautiful girl telling you how beautiful...