Word: esteeming
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...Third Century, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, Egypt wrote to a colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
...behind Mr. Dubinsky with some 35.000 C. I. O. United Hat, Cap and Millinery workers. John Lewis, emerging from a conference in Manhattan with a U. S. Steel official, was asked if he had anything to say. Said he: "Nothing in particular except that Mr. Dubinsky. whom I esteem highly, seems to be giving an imitation of Eliza crossing the ice and looking backward like Lot's wife. I think he ought to finally decide whether he is flesh or fowl or good red herring...
...subjects who admired what they considered His Majesty's spectacular humanism saw in this spirit something their whole kingdom should copy from the United States. During 1937, with Britain's Constitutional Crisis irrevocably and popularly settled, the broad revulsion of Britons has carried them back to renewed esteem for the normal British methods of conducting affairs, and naturally they have come at the same time to see President Roosevelt in a fresh light...
...used for "bait" to gain Catholic readers to your list of subscribers. Why criticize the Church in such a cowardly way? Why not stand upon your own two feet and say: This magazine is definitely opposed to Catholicism? I am sure that you would earn more respect and esteem than that which you now hold. We, 1,000 strong, have formulated a plan of action in which, unless your policy is notably changed, we will persuade the other 2,000 and their families to discontinue reading your publication. This action, al though originating in Los Angeles, Calif., will undoubtedly spread...
...history on to the turf of Soldiers Field. That team was soundly and squarely beaten. It was beaten by eleven men and their replacements who on that day were eleven All-Americans. They were All-American football players incidentally. Primarily they are Harvard men and students, for the high esteem in which members of the team are held off the field gives proof of their "all-roundness," while as a group they boast as notable an academic record as any comparable body in College...