Word: esteeming
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Although Gomulka had won the esteem, and even the affection of his people, for standing up to Russia, he was also doing a fine job of keeping Poland inside the Soviet orbit. At this moment of history his peculiar balance between Communism and patriotism makes him the ideal leader to both sides...
...graduate who at eighteen takes a job in the work-a-day world, and soon afterwards takes a wife, may settle down promptly to responsible family living. The course of his life may not be altogether unruffled but at least he is usually able to gain a certain self-esteem and sense of manly accomplishment as he comes to grips with the real business of life...
...unequal distribution of wealth. Towards Equality makes a routine blast at Britain's exclusive public schools (which produced some of Labor's top boys, including Gaitskell of Winchester) for developing "a separate class outlook and behavior." It further complains that there is not even "parity of esteem" between the various kinds of state-supported secondary schools. And in one final outburst of frenetic egalitarianism, it notes unhappily that, even if all British children attended identical schools, "the competitive advantage would be strongly with those whose family background was materially and culturally enriched...
...absence to prove it. Besides, said Ave, "It [Tammany] is only a nickname for the New York County Committee, and it does not dominate the Democratic Party of New York." Only when two old gubernatorial friends, A. B. ("Happy") Chandler and Oklahoma's Raymond Gary, indicated their esteem did Harriman get on base−and then the rally quickly died...
...many Catholics, the Catholic organization performed a commendable deed. [But] some scandal was surely present in the fostering of the erroneous belief that all religions are good and should be aided. I would say unhesitatingly that the Catholic organization should not have made the offer. However much we may esteem our non-Catholic brethren personally, and admire their sincerity and fervor in the practice of their religion, we must remember that their religion is false and that its practice is opposed to the commandment of Jesus Christ that all men profess the one religion which He established...