Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people a few years ago, until the fortitude of the Chinese people in their suffering opened American eyes. Since mid-April, when the 1942 United China Relief drive began, the U.S. public has given evidence of new understanding-not charity out of pity but charity out of the esteem of people for people. By last week contributions neared...
...public esteem into which Congress has fallen has worried many a thoughtful legislator-and not just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...
...defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human face, Monsieur de Malancourt remarked, is like...
...dedicating the oratory the Reverend Mr. Dan Huntington Fenn of Cambridge called it "a symbol of the deep affection we hold for Dean Sperry". The students dedicated the chapel to Dean Sperry because of the interest he had taken in it, and the esteem in which they held...
...Congresses, none had ever been held in lower esteem than the 77th. Many a citizen made a grim mental note to vote against his Congressman. For many a U.S. citizen it was all too easy to take out his general dissatisfaction on the 77th Congress. To many a citizen, Congress seemed a dreary collection of porcine clowns, of pompous pantaloons, always wrong or greedy or just stupid. Many a citizen remembered the marrow-chilling House draft-extension vote last August of 203-to-202, when one vote saved the nation's Army. Many a citizen remembered that Congress...