Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried, after the McGinnis fashion, to win the public esteem. He jazzed up the New Haven's freight cars with an eye-catching black, white and Chinese vermilion paint job. (The color scheme was concocted by Lucile McGinnis.) He inaugurated an electronic reservation system, and offered free caboose rides to Cub Scouts. But his public-be-damned attitude kept slipping through. Although 63% of the New Haven's business comes from passengers, McGinnis has an illconcealed conviction that commuters are a liability. He has seemed to go out of his way to aggravate every bad situation and antagonize...
...difficulties of patrolling the rough border country and probable intervention by clandestine communist groups, a series of serious incidents would be inevitable. Newspaper headlines about American soldiers who were involved in Arab-Jewish incidents would tend to dissipate American prestige. This loss would be dangerous, since United States esteem is an important stabilizing influence in the area, he said...
...during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London...
...letting Sun off with little more than a reprimand, the commission said it took account of his distinguished fighting record and his "admission of past mistakes and self-censure." Leniency toward Sun also served to reassure U.S. and overseas Chinese opinion, which holds Sun in high esteem and might have wondered at the implications for Nationalist China's future had so able, senior and "Western-minded" a leader been tossed overboard. Much cheered by the verdict, General Sun called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President...
...moral seems to be that the couch cannot call the calipers black. In phrenological terms, the Bump of Causality remains as unobtrusive as a pitcher's mound in Death Valley, while the Bump of Self-Esteem looms over it like Pike's Peak...