Word: esteeming
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...neutrality also hurts girls who hesitate to express independent ideas and, because boys get most of the teacher's attention, bright girls do not develop the same self-esteem as bright boys...
...absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of his colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
...between self and the outer world disappears, and with it, all conflict. (For people who are unaware, conflict is the rule of life. Men are filled with anxiety, they fight each other and suffer. For them the world is a set of grueling competitions, a constant struggle for self-esteem and power...
...haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caama...
Teutonic Intensity. The West Germans' victory in 1954 did more to reestablish German self-esteem than all the postwar agreements combined. Hoping to become Weltmeister again, the Germans are following the matches with Teutonic intensity. Some have bought a second TV set in case one should fail, spurred perhaps by the tragic case of a 33-year-old leatherworker who hanged himself at his home near Frankfurt after his set went on the blink during one of the opening games...