Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian] demonstrators are very ordered and very well-disciplined and I compliment them on it, as well as the people expressing a different point of view," said Daniel Steiner '54. Harvard's general counsel, who observed both demonstrations. "But Harvard police are here to make sure things are orderly," he said...
...some time now had to read wistful references to how he used to play ball. Rose has not missed a game in four sea sons in a Phillies uniform and has sat out all of nine games since 1970. Rose's age has been a steady compliment, Yastrzemski's a creeping accusation. A Boston medical writer, after due research and consultations with eminent physicians, put Yaz down this year for .230, if he was lucky. He is hitting .298, playing no position...
...State Department offered a backhanded compliment of sorts to agents of the KGB last week. "The Soviets are becoming more sophisticated," said an official commenting on the State Department's release of six documents that it claimed were Soviet forgeries. The department offered no proof, only the observation that the fakes fit a pattern of Soviet mischief-making in the past. The documents, which included letters that were purportedly signed by President Reagan and other high Administration officials, seemed designed to embarrass the U.S. and create friction with its allies. As it turned out, the forgeries were not very...
...will be a losing fight, ultimately, and it will not take place exclusively in the roadhouses. There have already been skirmishes up in the loftier precincts, where a well-turned antique compliment (Dr. Johnson to Boswell: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them") now sounds more like a neat way of undercutting a woman with awe. James Thurber, invited to talk to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1949 ("The idea of addressing the flower of American womanhood would terrify me even if I could see"), declined by invoking a story about a World...
Just as he had been after dismantling Ali in 1980, Holmes was gracious about his opponent. "I want to compliment Gerry Cooney. I think he's a great fighter. I shook Gerry Cooney's hand before the fight and I shook his hand after the fight. No hard feelings." For his part, Cooney said of Holmes, "He's the champion. No bitterness." Cooney finally conceded, "I was a little rusty." A cumulative total of 3 min. 43 sec. in two fights over two years is an insufficient time in the ring. "I didn't have...