Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live in convents or special communities. Beyond maintaining their virginity, they may if they wish function as assistants in the missionary field, in line with their interests and abilities. According to the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship, which announced the Vatican plan, the new rite is "a mark of esteem for women whose dignity is sometimes offended in our society, which is often dominated by vulgar hedonism...
...Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost of $10 per minute. Above all, Lombardi preached pride and mutual esteem, though he never permitted intimacy. Probably the most famous quote from Lombardi's Green Bay epoch came from Tackle Henry Jordan, who said: "He treats us all the same-like dogs." Jordan later added: "To this day, I don't know whether he liked me or not. He respected...
...solemn Mass in honor of Cardinal Zacchia, who was considered a shoo-in for election as the next Pope. The incumbent, Pope Urban VIII, supposedly lay dying in his villa at Castel Gandolfo 17 miles away in the Alban hills, and the cardinals were eager to show their esteem for the heir apparent. Just as the Mass was about to begin, the doors of the chapel swung open and Urban VIII, clad in full pontifical robes, strode in. Cardinal Zacchia abruptly collapsed, stricken with a heart attack. Wrote Urban later: the air at Castel Gandolfo had been "the instrument that...
Maxwell, a Member of Parliament until he was defeated in the June election, was held in considerably greater esteem in London's financial community. Last year, advised by merchant bankers N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Saul Steinberg, 31, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp., made a $60 million bid for control of Pergamon. The ebullient Steinberg saw Pergamon's big library of scientific data as a logical complement to Leasco (1969 sales: $101 million), which has aggressively moved into all phases of computer information services as well as management consulting and insurance...
...What a pity the Western culture is unlike the Oriental. The Chinese, who have for centuries held their elders in the highest esteem, have words regarding their aged: The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel...