Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the meeting, Councilor DeGuglielmo made his proposal for the appointment of a Council committee to investigate the need for a Public Safety Commissioner. He gave as the reason for the proposal "a growing disrespect for law and a recent laxity in law enforcement...
Packard concludes by saying that the manipulative attitude involves an inherent disrespect for human personality. However, this attitude seems unlikely to change in a society with no higher values than those of an expanding economy and increasing consumption...
Where is the exciting, responsible Protestant scholarship in our country? Is it not the American atmosphere which denies the worth of it rather than merely American Catholics? Disrespect for intellectual values belongs, alas, to all Americans, most especially to those bigoted Protestants who, knowing not of what they speak, nevertheless hasten to dash off letters to editors...
...life there. These men are tolerant of one another, but aware of what they consider "proper" for a Senator. Their philosophy accounts for both the long time it took to punish Senator McCarthy, even for plain violations of our political tradition, and the way he was finally punished (for disrespect to fellow members and bringing disrepute on the Senate...
...fine, flaring disrespect for the outside world, coupled with a profound understanding of Georgia and its politics, carried both Talmadges to the governor's mansion. As governor, Herman inherited and refined his father's credo: keep down the cities, hold the Negro to his proper place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces...