Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphians know of the low esteem in which they are held by the New York press -which pleases us no end. But you can't publish so-called portraits of our Robby on your cover and say such nasty things about our Phillies and their fans without getting a few brickbats in return...
...over Lamb counted his costs ($35,000), licked his wounds and bravely talked of next year. But even in defeat, he drew little sympathy. Editorialized his home-town Toledo Blade:"Here in Toledo, where Mr. Lamb's personality and methods have not won him quite the esteem which the Seiberlings seem to enjoy in Akron, the prevailing view will be that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow...
...press still commands little esteem from Frenchmen. By U.S. standards, most papers are typographically jumbled, abound in inaccurate and slanted, misleading stories. Foreign correspondents in Paris soon get over the shock of having officials suggest when information is unavailable: "Why don't you invent something...
...expensive kind of digestif: she is expected to dance while the customers eat. Even more shockingly barbaric, she feels, is the mechanical monster she finds lurking in her boudoir-her own personal 25? slot machine that was installed, the management hastens to assure her, as a sign of especial esteem. Worst of all, the male population is made up mostly of gamblers, who are so busy losing money that they have no time to make girls. "There's no one," she sputters indignantly, "to be aloof from." That, as every moviegoer will recognize, is the cue for girl...
...marked the last days of Stalin, a voice had called from the body of the hall: "Why didn't you kill him?" Answered Khrushchev: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." It is conceivable that Russia's top leadership, seeking further claim to public esteem among Stalin's innumerable victims and their relatives, might yet admit having quietly "removed" the mad dictator. It would explain many things (e.g., the fantastic Doctors' Plot), but it still would not purge the shared guilt in old crimes...