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Word: compliments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Price said on Sunday, "I was utterly surprised by the announcement last night," adding that the appointment is a "very nice compliment...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Bok and Allison Appoint Price To Weatherhead Professorship | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...Buckley, who never offers bait without a barb. Oakes expresses "dismay over the mind-boggling incapacity of Frenchmen to govern themselves." Acheson recalls John Stuart Mill's observation that while Conservatives are not generally stupid, "stupid people are generally Conservative." The Soviet intelligence chief pays the author a compliment by quoting from a National Review article on an assassination attempt that "had all the earmarks of a CIA operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbed Bait | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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