Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own government by furnishing all the information they had about the Communist infiltration movement. Alger Hiss should be left to make his volun tary atonement for his crime, but, if he chooses to remain silent altogether, he will not soon regain, even among his friends, some of the esteem he once...
Three years after this incident, in 1858, Eliot recalled the case of a famous French instructor who resigned over the issue of a fire in his classroom. The distracted man, who was held in high esteem by faculty and students alike, blamed the Jesuits for starting the blaze which almost consumed University Hall...
...these talks is to remove dislike, suspicion and fear of each other . . . The Chinese response is good." One newsman asked: "Is the purpose to make China acceptable to the rest of the world?" Nehru replied: "To make the rest of the world acceptable to China." Whatever platitudinous pledges of esteem might be agreed to at the end of the visit, the fact was (according to word sifting back to New Delhi) that Nehru was shocked by Red China's cocky misunderstanding of the outside world, and afraid that Red China's distorted picture might lead Asia to disaster...
...part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave him a "cow shower" as a token of their esteem: a brand-new ranch Jeep and a truckload of 25 prime Angus calves...
Corporal Claude J. Batchelor, 22, one of the 23 "progressive" prisoners who decided to stay with the Communists in Korea, changed his mind and came back-partly because of letters from his Japanese wife. But he still boasted of the Reds' "high regard for me." He deserved their esteem. According to witnesses, he played the Communist game, informed on one American fellow prisoner and recommended that another be shot. Last week in San Antonio, an Army court-martial gave Batchelor the stiffest sentence yet imposed on any American collaborationist: life imprisonment. In Tokyo his wife, still writing letters, said...