Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoner of famed Acre prison and as an ex-member of Haganah, and altogether one of the boys your critic might call "terrorists," I wish to compliment you on the fair report about this film...
...brushes with courts, congressional committees, ethical practices committees and assorted reformers, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa has earned a reputation as a thoroughly bad egg. But, curiously, even some of his critics pay him at least one grudging compliment: despite his many faults, they say, Jimmy Hoffa always takes good care of his Teamsters. Last week a federal grand jury in Florida leveled charges against Hoffa that, if proved, should smash forever the notion that he cares a hoot about the welfare of his union's members...
...Government in civil rights cases. He handed down the original decisions desegregating Montgomery's parks and bus lines; last February, however, he upheld the expulsion of six Negroes from Alabama College for taking part in a racial demonstration, sharply chided them for improperly violating public order. "If you compliment me because you think it's good law, I appreciate it," he says. "If you compliment me because you like the decision, I don't appreciate it. If you criticize me because you don't like a decision. I don't care for that either...
Most of the former French colonies paid their mother country the compliment of adapting the Tricolor, although eschewing the French red, white and blue. Even the simplest designs caused headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camar...
...write to compliment you on the Election Extra Issue. It's not that I liked the issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...