Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly, some Pacific Coast planemakers guessed that belligerent purchases had already reached a peak in purchase of combat planes, that future orders would be mostly for training ships. Reason: rising British home production and a growing disrespect for the Nazi airforce. Eastern planemakers, however, felt buying would increase when delivery could be assured. What a big German push on the Western Front would do was another matter...
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood...
...would not have wanted to have said for him-except that he felt that others had created a situation which might be mistaken to compromise the position of the Catholic clergy toward the Congress of the United States, and toward his great friend and admiration, the President. ... It constitutes disrespect for wisdom and experience, and is a positive impediment to our democratic process, deliberately to bludgeon Senators and Congressmen with letters and telegrams which can only be counted and not read...
...disrespect for the law has encouraged many a timid reporter. To interview a Japanese arriving on a ship, Smitty once raced the entire length of a dock with both horns of his car blasting the air, scattering police, dock guards, customs officers, longshoremen and the personal bodyguard of the Japanese. Finally he pulled up at the gangplank, jumped out and bowed to the Japanese, muttering and hissing...
...those resolutions, they are not the expressions of "a hot, hard-shelled, bone-picking mood." Baptists are devoted to the principle of absolute separation of Church and State. Their protests arise from this devotion. I assure you that the protests were without the slightest disrespect for the Catholics, the Catholic Church, or the exalted Heads of that Church. . . . The protest was an expression of the Baptist conviction derived from the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by bitter experience that absolute separation of Church and State is indispensable, and that every beginning in the direction of connection of Church and State ought...