Word: esteeming
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...third, MacArthur used to enjoy posing for glorifying propaganda pictures. The few arguments in his favor don't balance the equation. The successful management of the Pacific campaign and the efficient administration of Japan after V-J Day don't mean a thing. No, the irretrievable damnation of self-esteem outweighs whatever might be said for him. He likes to dress up too much; he is a propagandist; he thinks a lot of himself, like Teddy Roosevelt did. Come hell or Henry Wallace, we must have a humble man in the White House...
...London, Major Horace Elgin Dodge, high-flying U.S. auto heir, came out of a British court tussle with his fortune undamaged but his self-esteem dented. Lord Chief Justice Goddard had decided against an art dealer who was suing Dodge for $27,200, the uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...
...even with the Law School returned to an even higher esteem than ever in the eyes both of the legal profession and the general public, Langdell did not rest in his efforts to improve scholastic standards, for in 1893 a rule was passed requiring a college degree for admission in all but the most exceptional cases. At the time this was an unprecedented action, and it brought down upon the University the cry of snobbishness and the charge that "Langdell would turn down Lincoln if he applied for admission...
...Toft & Harold Stassen turned up again on the same platform, this time in Columbus, Ohio. Again they exchanged expressions of esteem. Cracked a newsman: "They're not such strange bedfellows-they both have nightmares about Dewey...
...youngest or an only child who becomes obese. . . . Fathers usually play a subordinate role in the emotional life of the obese family. The mothers are dominant in their influence. . . ." Coddled, overfed and overprotected by a doting mother, the chubby child grows up with a "fundamentally low self-esteem and with the conviction of his helplessness in a world which has been represented to him as a dangerous place...