Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...
...will toward Dulles has been building for a long time. Britain never forgave him for blurting, after the Suez crisis-while attempting to point up the Middle East's low esteem for Britain and France-that if he were an American soldier he would not like to fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian...
...fact in itself is simple-but the problem is peculiar. To be sure, Kennedy has Democratic enemies, covert and overt, in Massachusetts. Congressman John McCormack is one example, although the foxy old House majority leader has recently been talking pro-Kennedy for all he is worth. The mutual esteem between Kennedy and Governor Foster Furcolo is at best on-again-off-again; some waspish Bostonians attribute it to the theory that "Gaelic and garlic don't mix." But Jack Kennedy is beyond any question his state's best vote-getter. His Democratic renomination is assured. The real difficulty...
...often, Communism is not to him the brave new world that the Western Utopians saw in the '30s, but a practical expedient by means of which a poor nation can ruthlessly mobilize its manpower and resources so as to attain economic strength, military power and, consequently, the esteem of the world...
...spite of such a distinctly non-professional demeanor, or partly, perhaps, because of it, Turner is held in high esteem as a teacher...