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Word: disrespective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patience and tolerance worthy of respect -- the patience of a woman suffering in labor, the patience of real creators at work, the patience of people under torture who will not name their friends. But there is also useless, humiliating patience. How can we respect ourselves if we allow such disrespect for ourselves every day? Every queue, every shortage shows our society's disrespect for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko: We Humiliate Ourselves | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...many Blacks should not turn around to admit Black students and then proceed to cast doubt on segments of their culture, simply because the administration lacks an adequate understanding of it. Such action, as evidenced by a doubt-casting investigation, shows that Harvard is bending over backwards to demonstrate disrespect...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Going After Black Frats | 5/18/1988 | See Source »

...these targets of such disrespect in the National Hockey League...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: M-I-C-K-E-Y D-E-V-I-L-S | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...change. Nixon is already listened to by many people. His party has already forgiven him for the crimes he committed against the nation. The President has already accepted him as an expert on public policy. But if we are already willing to overlook Nixon's manipulations, lies and utter disrespect for the highest office and laws of the land, then the damage he did to the ideals of the nation is irreversible...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Stop Nixon Revisionism | 4/19/1988 | See Source »

...barely looked at [the petition,]" said Michael J. Bonin '89. "He showed a great disrespect for the students' and the community's opinion...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Student Leaders Present Petition | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

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