Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could still find fault with the Dartmouths though, for the possessive aspect that their newfound self-esteem assumed. At the DKE House, known in Hanover if not nationally as "black" (i.e. wild), a hired village cop was gustily turning away returning alumni who had forgotten their membership cards. The hospitality of the Green "Dekes" was not extended to a bedraggled "brother" from neighboring Middlebury, either...
...only have you risen a notch in my esteem, but you have displayed a rare, delicate and wonderful sort of quality in your Sept. 5 tribute to Herman Wouk...
...bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams. From Peleliu to Okinawa and from Inchon to Changjin reservoir, he won many honors (including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Army's Distinguished Service Cross) and advanced rapidly in the esteem of the corps...
...Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen the fascinating experiment, begun in Men at Arms, of doling out uncertain portions of esteem and even affection to such characters as share his 18th century Tory's devotion to God, King and Country. As one result, a somewhat unforgiving melancholy runs through this often very funny book...
...anxiety created is sharply defined into two kinds: fear of harm to one's self; fear of failure, with resultant loss of esteem in the eyes of officers and buddies...