Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doggedly as Caliban followed Prospero, as surely as a snowball seeks a top hat, Prankster Tuck stalked his quarry from one campaign to the next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt Tuck's techniques and use them against the Democrats...
...warm that about the only thing missing was balalaika music. Astronaut Tom Stafford greeted the Soviet visitors to the Johnson Space Center in his newly acquired (albeit broken) Russian. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov-who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space-promptly returned the linguistic compliment. Asked whether he anticipated any language difficulties when Stafford's Apollo spacecraft and his Soyuz rendezvous and dock in earth orbit in 1975, Leonov broke into a broad grin and said: "No problem English...
...tried very hard to play by the rules of the sexual code, and hushed every self doubt under a louder male catcall or compliment. But a few years of shutting up to make men feel smart, acting timid to make them feel brave, and lying to make them feel stronger left me empty inside. Since the attention I got for my manipulative agility told me that I was a success by the standards of "femininity," I began to think that my problem was neurotic. So I went into psychoanalysis and discovered that I hated...
...After being criticized for saying Jews were "an elite people, dominating and sure of itself," De Gaulle said the words were intended as a compliment. Sardonically, he added: "If only one could call the French an elite people, dominating and sure of itself...
Right there in the girlie magazine's gamy letters-to-the-editor column, who should turn up but Ronald Reagan? Unlike the other correspondents, who like to share their sexcapades, he was writing Penthouse to compliment Cartoonist Al Capp on a highly flattering article mentioning the Governor of California that had appeared five months before...