Word: compliments
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...Russia, during the years when ideas of any kind were considered enemies, authorities thought writing so explosive that they paid writers of all kinds the extreme compliment of sending them to Siberia for saying anything honest at all. Now Russian readers, long starved for words that would offer back to them an image of their own repressed hopes and feelings, stretch avidly to hear any new voice that is raised...
...flight to the U.S. The offended passengers, Senator Fernando Lopez and three members of his family, charged that Pan Am gave their seats to white passengers. In rejecting Pan Am's plea that the reservation mixup was an "honest mistake," the judge paid the airline a left-handed compliment: he could not believe, he said, that Pan Am, which advertises itself as the "world's most experienced airline," could make such a mistake unintentionally...
...apparently found personal liberty-at the expense of being at odds with the outside world. "I'm not interested in illustrating my time," he says. "Our age is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage...
...very good doctrine. But are we to say that all men are equal except peers?" Harold, who was promptly dubbed "the 14th Mr. Wilson" by the press, for the moment made no more attacks on the Tory leader's genealogy, and in fact paid him a grudging compliment. "The Tory Party," allowed Wilson, "is no longer boring...
...Shadow. Such a compliment is treasured in Houston as a propaganda victory in its cold war with Dallas. In the old days Dallas had all the sophistication, and Houston was a "whisky and trombone town"; the orchestra played Old Black Joe for encores. Leopold Stokowski was hired in the cultural offensive of 1955, and though he greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived...