Word: disrespectfulness
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EUROPE'S hostile disrespect [is] due to no unfamiliarity with things American. There is a reasonably abundant flow of facts and goods and people across the Atlantic; if we are strange, it is not because we are strangers. Rather, it is as if there hung between us, more formidable than any Iron Curtain, an invisible distorting lens that has skewed the American social landscape and its inhabitants into fantastic shapes...
...long as the workers want to keep him." Strikes and new wage claims, he added, would not be tolerated. Even before this-in fact, from the day Batista took over-sugar mill-owners, manufacturers and hotelkeepers reported a sudden end to such nuisances as wildcat strikes and "disrespect...
...night-riding mob of 40 or 50 beat up a Negro housewife; it was rumored that they were really after her husband for philandering with a white woman. Other floggings were given to Negro and white victims variously charged with wife beating, failure to attend church, drunkenness, disrespect to parents, laziness. Warnings on Klan stationery were sent to many: one woman was told that there was only one man, specifically named, that she was to go out with. If she went out with anybody else, "steps would be taken." It got so, around Tabor City, that everyone polished...
...slapped a lien on his bank account. Torino fought back, brought out a mimeographed edition of El Intransigente, and appealed for help to the Inter-American Press Association. Peron declined to let the Association's commission into Argentina, then jailed Torino for running his clandestine paper and for "disrespect" toward the Salta judge...
Last week, penniless and broken in health, Torino was still in the Salta jail; he has yet to be sentenced for anything. When his lawyer petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, the lawyer was thrown in jail for "disrespect." Torino's doctor, who got permission to move Torino to a Salta hospital for a hernia operation last month, also landed in jail. His offense: protesting when the authorities ordered Torino back to jail only four days after the operation. Peron even found a way to send El Intransigente to jail. By terms of his expropriation decree, the mechanical...