Word: encomium
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...setting carried the tongue-in-cheek warning: "Huddled in a congenial bar off lower Park Avenue, there lurks a band of renegades who at this very moment are plotting an outrageous assault on the time-honored traditions of gentlemen's journalism." The ad also quotes Breslin's encomium on his colleagues: "There's not a thinker in the crowd...
...Kraut"-she reverentially puts in all her dressing rooms? "That has all been publicized," she abruptly answers, then relents enough to add: "He knew me better than anybody, and naturally he could say it better than anybody." Naturally. "She is brave, beautiful, loyal, kind and generous," Papa began an encomium that is now reproduced on one of her record albums...
...express the view that they are "better informed today than they were five years ago." But, Harris concludes, "this is not to say that there is a limitless blue-sky euphoria about the media. Each has its problems in communicating with the American people. Tucked beneath each encomium is a reservation of healthy skepticism...
...Komsomol boasts a proud heritage. In 1918, when Russia's civil war was at its height, the fledgling youth movement gave the Bolshevik cause some of its most dedicated fighters. Their role earned them Lenin's encomium as the "shock forces" of the revolution. There were 22,000 members then, people drawn from schools, factories and farms. They considered themselves "an active, creative force in society, the party's helper and its reserve, a school of Communism for youth...
...greatest tactical air technician, and knows more about the operations of tactical air forces than anyone the Air Force has ever produced." That rare encomium from Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell was directed at the man who is running the air war in Viet Nam: General William Wallace Momyer, 51. As commander of the Seventh Air Force and the "coordinating authority" for all air strikes by any service, the trim, soft-spoken Momyer (pronounced Moe-meyer) is the officer responsible not only for rolling the thunder over North Viet Nam but for directing all air operations...