Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have taken the opposite tack entirely, and assumed it to be a drawback. In his plan, Fox identified the Quad's "difference" of class structure as one of the reasons for its lack of popularity. Fox's plan remedies the difference, but this alone seems unlikely to raise the esteem of the Quad Houses among freshmen--Fox's original goal; it may even reduce...
...bribes, and widely assailed for accepting a pay raise without facing up to a vote on it, the post-Watergate Congress is in trouble with its constituents. In the most recent Harris survey of public attitudes toward the leaders of 10 national institutions, members of Congress ranked eighth in esteem (liked even less: corporation executives and labor bosses...
Connally is still a marginal Watergate figure, especially in the minds of many Democrats. But his acquital on the milk fund charges last year may have actually raised him in esteem for Republicans who saw much of Watergate as a Democrat-inspired vendetta and his prosecution--based on less-than-solid evidence--as one more manifestation of this vendetta. At the least, the acquital gave Connally a nominal clearance for a return to electoral politics...
...gentle good humor and moral integrity that won him the admiration of his most conservative foes. Hart did not run for re-election this fall because of ill health and because, he said, Washington needed new faces and new ideas. In a rare tribute, his fellow Senators expressed their esteem by voting to name their new Senate office building for him. Said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was the best one of the last 25 years...
Pennypacker's abrupt rise in esteem--"from the pits to the Ritz," as one former resident characterized it--provides plenty of fodder for characterized it--provides plenty of fodder for armchair sociologists quick to find an incisive explanation for any new trend. While finding any people who say they are unhappy with life in Pennypacker may be surprisingly difficult, it's a cinch to find 20 people with 20 different theories about why the dorm has suddenly become such a "bed of roses." But the various theories explaining the dorm's new-found popularity all return to a single fact...