Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris Herter's opportunity is, perhaps, greater than that of any of his illustrious predecessors. It is Herter's good fortune to be presiding over the Commonwealth at a period when statehouses are once again rising in importance and esteem in the political scheme of things. To the Eisenhower Administration decentralization of government is an article of faith. But decentralization can be successful only if governors, among others, make the most of the chance to act intelligently in their own right. In such outlying leadership lies not only political opportunity for the Republicans but strength...
From now on, increasing competition between Californians Nixon and Knowland seems inevitable. The immediate, specific political aims of each are 1) to be higher than the other in the esteem of President Eisenhower, and 2) to control the California delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1956. But there is another aim in the distance. Neither Nixon nor Knowland has to stretch his imagination far to see the White House in his future. One of them may well make it. There is no chance that both of them will. That is the real seed and soil of the conflict...
...carefully transferred partially cured psychiatric patients at his hospital to the status of "member employees.'' (Sample jobs: landscape worker, painter, janitor.) He found that a monthly paycheck for many patients is a valuable bridge between life in an institution and life in society outside, restores their self-esteem and greatly accelerates recovery...
...George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history to have been raised up by the people"; 3) Chiang Kai-shek (who has traveled both high and low in the Justice's esteem) is the symbol of a tired, failure-marked revolution...
...does like to make one's Mummy just as nice as possible." said James McNeill Whistler after he finished his most famous painting. Whistler's dignified, peaceful portrait of his mother, which he called Arrangement in Grey and Black, was nice enough to gain it lasting world esteem, make it the best-known painting by an American. But most Americans have never seen it in the original...