Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson: "By now, the term Great Society has become the object of Bronx cheers and other catcalls, both highbrow and lowbrow. That was only to be expected. As for me, I have just reread [President Johnson's Ann Arbor speech], and I esteem it now, as I did when it was made, as one of the ten or twelve great milestones in American history...
...last, an article about a man in public life (not an athlete) that we can read with pride because he is "An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro" [Feb. 17]. Edward Brooke expresses the sentiments many of us feel. Adam Powell is not held in high esteem by most Negroes. I became disenchanted with Martin Luther King some time ago. Carmichael is in a class with Rockwell...
...fact, if people felt that they were being manipulated it would destroy the whole worth of the program. "You have to be careful not to lower their self-esteem," he cautions. "All you can give is a kind of avocational counselling...
...Washington, the China watchers, basking in a new-found esteem, are also the acknowledged experts on Chinese restaurants (their honorable selections: the Yenching Palace and the Peking). They identify themselves with greetings in Mandarin: to "How are you?" one might answer Ma Ma Hu Hu, which means "horse, horse, tiger, tiger," or "pretty lousy." Though they can rarely come up with the tidy conclusions of their Kremlinological colleagues, they doubtless deserve the white button one of them was wearing last week: its four Chinese characters said simply: "We try harder...
George C. Marshall, a five-star general, rates a four-volume biography, and this second volume does much to make clear why the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during its worst military situation since 1812 deserved the high esteem in which he was held by official Washington, by his profession and by the public. As the nation's top duty officer, he showed that his chief qualities were probity and unselfish service...