Word: encomiums
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...year-old child can understand. He has infinite patience. He has sacrificed his own life completely for the revolution." Jawaharlal Nehru adds: "Extraordinarily likable and friendly ... a man of integrity desiring peace." And an American, who worked with Ho against the Japanese in World War II, wraps up the encomium: "Ho was a very nice guy." Ho Chi Minh is a wispy man (100 Ibs.), mild and slow-spoken, and disarmingly forthright. He is a man who sits on the edges of chairs, his hands folded meekly in his lap. "You must give the people an example of poverty, misery...
...wars has there been such close contact and cooperation between artillery and infantry. Major General David Barr, back in Washington last week after leading the 7th Division in Korea, gave a field commander's encomium: "The atmosphere in Korea is that there is nothing the artillery won't or can't do; no place the artillery...
...20th round, with eight contestants still hanging on, the judges had exhausted their original list of 615 words, had to call time out while they scrabbled in their dictionaries for more stickers. Imprimatur, encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...
...syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...
...greatest love story ever filmed" is the modest encomium reserved by MGM for its latest romantic outburst. David Niven and Teresa Wright are the protagonists in this cosmic match, and they are backed up by a talking house, a war, and 60-odd years worth of flashbacks...