Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has been pressure from some alumni to put Harvard football on nationwide television. Naturally, alumni want to generate public esteem for the College. But the undue stress this would put on football as a college activity would far outweigh any gains in general good will. By recruiting players to build television prestige, well-intentioned supporters might undermine the College's policy of athletic "sanity...
...afraid for America," Jungk writes in his last chapter, "afraid of its losing the best of itself, the esteem for freedom and humanity, in the struggle for nearly godlike omnipotence." Only at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton did he find a glimmer of hope. There someone told him: "All that you've seen in America ... is not what is to come but what is already passing." "So you don't think the future will be simply an intensification of this alarming present?" asked Jungk. "No," replied his mentor. "In spite of everything, there is hope...
Respect, Then Esteem. Into Nairobi last week, to adjudge the balance between the settlers' anxiety, the campaign's necessity, and the black man's historic emergence in Africa, flew Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. It was Lyttelton's third visit to Kenya in 16 months, and the war's latest statistics bore out his concern. Six thousand British, 44,000 African troops, police and home guards are now deployed against some 14,000 Mau Mau and their supporters. The war costs more than twice as much ($1,800,000 a month) this year as last...
...replace Kenya's retiring Police Commissioner Michael O'Rorke. Young, boss of the City of London's police, is the man who helped General Sir Gerald Templer reorganize Malaya's police. He considers it his job to build up "first of all respect, and then esteem" for Kenya's ill-trained, badly equipped and sometimes indiscriminately cruel 24,000-man national police force...
First, so far as our national welfare and safety are involved, I am convinced that the actions of the committees are both futile and self-defeating. They are, also, tragically destructive of our national morale at home, and of the esteem and confidence of our friends abroad. They are, in fact, of use only to our enemies. As an American citizen, therefore, I must do everything I legitimately can to bring about their abolition...