Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard way," says the Targum. Mulling over the scores of the only two games the boys from the Raritan have played in the Stadium, they point out that Harvard can have no claim to the cannon as a victory trophy. The theft of the tradition-cloaked cannon "reflects disrespect on all students of Harvard University," concludes the Targum...
Music Lesson. In Hanover, Germany, newspaper Critic Klaus Wagner was sentenced to a week's hard labor with a rubble-clearing squad for "disrespect for his elders," i.e., writing a sneering review of an opera performance...
California Democrats had been cautioned by Attorney General Bob Kenny to treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
...story whose capacity for hard sense and an all too rare humor gives it a distinct place in refugee literature. As befits the outlook of an editor of satire, it contains no awed descriptions of intimate meetings with famous people; as an intellectual confession it confesses nothing but disrespect for overintellectualized confessions...
Marshall was well aware of the danger. In a valedictory message as Army Chief of Staff last October, he asked: "Are we already shirking the responsibility of victory? . . . Are we inviting the same international disrespect that prevailed before this war?" He had given his rhetorical question a ringing answer: "We must not waste the victory...