Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next day, hurrying to get away for his regular weekend on Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
Recalling Prado's last state visit as Peru's President during World War II, Kennedy welcomed his visitor as an old friend: "President Roosevelt wanted President Prado to come to our country to express his esteem for him and his leadership against the Axis. Nearly 20 years later, President Prado comes again. The U.S. President is different, times have changed, the adversaries now take a different form. But I believe that both Peru and the U.S., still standing shoulder to shoulder, fight for the same things...
...basic psychological problems is an almost invariable loss of self-esteem after arrival; he feels uprooted and hence resentful. He is shocked at the meagerness of his money; U.S. scholarships do not usually cover living expenses or summer vacations as do Europe's. He finds astonishingly diversified colleges with unpredictable standards. He finds rude waiters, Jimmy Hoffa, demanding children, and kind old ladies who ask Africans if they live in trees. He rarely finds anyone who knows the location of Mali, Gabon or Dahomey, or even of their existence...
...Bulldog. During those perilous years, Smith won the esteem of such fractious military men as Britain's Montgomery, France's De Gaulle and the U.S.'s General Mark Clark. When Eisenhower was preparing to leave for London to direct the Normandy invasion, Winston Churchill (who dubbed Smith "the Bulldog") begged him to leave Smith in the Mediterranean theater as chief of staff. "But," recalled Ike in Crusade in Europe, "to this I could not agree . . . General Smith suited me so completely that I felt it would be unwise to break up the combination just as we were...
...less dump $10,000 in their laps. Such is the unique gesture of Chicago Lawyer Leo T. Norville, 56. His startled beneficiary: History Professor Preston W. Slosson, 68, who in 40 years at the University of Michigan taught 18,000 students. Says Norville: "It was a token of affection, esteem and appreciation for what he tried to teach...