Word: esteeming
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...public speech and private chat, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan had proved himself the most outspoken visiting statesman Washington had heard in years. Some found the frankness refreshing, but most diplomats were appalled at his bald attempts to downgrade India and India's Nehru in U.S. esteem...
Cold Storage. Tito dropped off tokens of his esteem at every stop. Nkrumah got a movie projector and reels of film about Yugoslavia, gave his bemedaled guest a symbolic golden stool in return. More substantial largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little...
...While playing with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the 1920s, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, now 68, gave Britain some of its finest theatrical hours, earned the especial esteem of the creator of many of his most challenging roles. Recalls Hardwicke in his memoirs, A Victorian in Orbit: "Probably the handsomest compliment ever paid me was delivered by Bernard Shaw. 'You are,' he said, 'my fifth favorite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.' " Knighted in 1934, Hardwicke well remembers the occasion. King George V could not quite catch the actor's name, finally gave...
During the presentation, Ten Brook read from a scroll, "The Hasty Pudding has always held womanhood and acting ability in high esteem..." Miss Fonda giggled
Most girls, Dr. Binger claims, attempt to satisfy this need by "winning the affection and esteem of a young men they admire." But the young man is far less ready, says Dr. Binger, "for a real and rewarding relationship." For the girls, this leads to feelings of uncertainty and depression and a consequent loss of zest for academic work...