Word: esteeming
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...R.A.F. subordinates usually esteem his quality of directness. "Oh, we love him," one of them said recently; "he's so bloody inhuman." In the first bomber unit which he commanded, between World Wars I & II, he was reputed to be the rudest man in the R.A.F. He was also an effective commander: he developed the "pacification by bombing" which kept unruly Indian border tribes more or less under control. When soft-hearted folk protested, Harris' friends explained that he always gave a village a full day's warning before his bombers destroyed...
...Robert P. Patterson dealt Nelson the unkindest cut. He said sweetly that he held Jeffers in "high esteem," deeply regretted if his "recent remarks should have been interpreted as reflecting" on Jeffers...
During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another new weapon, the glider was first overlooked, then overdramatized, later overdisparaged...
Scherman's power has not always brought him esteem. In 1929 the American Booksellers' Association drew up an indictment of book clubs and guilds which is sometimes echoed today...
...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...