Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alive. There was but one choice for the first President of the U.S.: George Washington. The office was of necessity less precisely defined than the judicial and legislative branches. It might have degenerated into a puppet presidency. Washington defined it by stepping into it. He held it in great esteem, and imparted to it the dignity of his own character. He refused to shake hands during his eight years in the office-he felt that such a gesture of familiarity was beneath the presidency-and always bowed instead. He dressed richly in velvet, wore hats plumed with ostrich feathers, rode...
...Bisaccia has not forgotten us," he said, ". . . nor will we forget his son." Then Louis presented a bronze plaque from the city council of Richmond that summed up the years he had been away. It read: "To the people of Bisaccia, Italy, in recognition of the high esteem in which we hold your native son . . . Louis Salzarulo...
England that secondary-school programs must be remade to guarantee 'parity of esteem' for all is . . .a demand to destroy the prestige of excellence in society generally. To deny the esteem and prestige which nature attaches to excellence is no service to democracy...
...great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., and the movie version, while raising the tempers of those who could not bear the sight of so high a pedestal for a Nazi general, helped make Rommel...
...picture, she moved to Arequipa and started a guesthouse with a small garden. In time it grew into a long, rambling structure surrounded by a pleasant jungle of trellised roses, honeysuckle and bougainvillaea. She called it Quinta Bates, and ran it with an imperious hand; travelers came to esteem it as the finest boarding house in the Western Hemisphere...