Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well-Meaning Giant. Although the USIA leaks, if they were to be believed beyond other tests, documented Kennedy's case, they did not entirely refute Nixon's, if by "prestige" he meant esteem and popularity. The polls showed that the U.S. is still highly popular, as compared with Russia, even among people who think that Russia is more powerful...
...seem like virtues. In The Bridge over the River Kivai, a Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book, a Free French intelligence agent turns traitor and yet convinces himself that he has won a personal badge of courage...
...York Post remarked about Senator Byrd's practice of shipping in West Indies Negroes to work in his Southern orchards at less than the U.S. minimum wage, the white man no longer owned his slaves; he rented them. Some individual Negoes were able to earn positions of esteem in the Negro community and even gained respect in the white community, insofar as they became the liasons and chief deferrers to the whites. But nearly all Negroes remained in the economic lower classes...
...graduates reject academic values, rebel against the system, and leave Harvard in greater numbers (and percentages) than any other group. These graduates of a tough sink-or-swim system much like Harvard rate themselves highly, and especially prize their own sophistication. Many of those most dependent on this self-esteem are attracted to the College...
...Fabiola?" One of her friends said loyally, "She is very devout, very Spanish, just what foreigners think most Spanish girls are like-not like the new generation." Generalissimo Franco wired King Baudouin his congratulations and his hope that the marriage will "reinforce the already traditional bonds* of friendship and esteem which unite our countries...