Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being and well-meaning are deceiving. Respectability and temperance are the coats that hide the flaming red galluses and the flaming passions of Herman's father. Says a Georgia lawyer who has watched Gene and Herman Talmadge operate through the years: "The Talmadges have always maintained a fundamental disrespect...
...Karachi, 15,000 students and hired stooges of Moslem League politicos recently fallen from power marched through the streets. "War with India," they shouted, and "Down with Nehru's Tyranny!" Students bore Nehru's picture through the city, garlanded with old shoes, an extreme sign of disrespect to Hindus. By noon the mob had forced shops to close. broken the windows of the Indian bank, stoned school buses and stopped all traffic in Bunder Road, Karachi's main street. The East Pakistan legislature, not content with Governor Munshi's apologies, demanded that the governments of India...
...successful in love, but I didn't get into espionage for that reason." Nor was it because of an inferiority complex or a desire for acclaim that he devoted eleven years to passing atomic secrets to the Russians. "Somewhere in me, through the years, I got a basic disrespect-it got so I thought I could ignore authority if I thought I was right. I was cocksure." With what seemed genuine remorse, Harry Gold summed up how the spy ring manipulated him: "Like a virtuoso would play a violin...
Scher said that one of the main reasons for his bill was the number of freshmen who have been injured at the Smoker in the past three years. He also said that students have shown "disrespect" for entertainers, and that the dwindling attendence of the Smokers has resulted in "financial loss...
...leave their seats or use flashbulbs. Using 35-mm. cameras, they made about 565 shots, completely won the approval of Judge Carroll: "The photographers didn't interfere with the conduct of the trial as much as coughing in the spectator section of the courtroom did. There was no disrespect shown to the court. I feel that a photographer is exactly the same as a reporter, and should be extended the same privileges. A picture is as important as a story-sometimes more important because it could possibly be more accurate than a verbal description of a scene...