Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run. Since then, 100 years have swept across the parched Arizona buttes. Now the grass grows sparsely, and water must be hauled from distant wells. As the Navajos' population expands, opportunities shrink. Young men go away. Elders lose esteem. By passed by white progress, the Navajos clutch the tatters of their treaty promises and watch the old ways...
They are of the generation whose parents, influenced by changing ideas about child rearing, made much of giving affection and declaring esteem while encouraging early independence. They are of the generation whose teachers, responding to changing ideas about education, strenuously taught them to ask questions and think for themselves while giving them increased freedom in running their own affairs. They were reared in a period when social adjustment had come to be considered a prime virtue, with consequent hastening of children into contact with other children and the early formation of a strong "youth culture...
...year A.T. & T. lost $3,000,000 to them and spent another $10 million repairing and replacing many of its 1,200,000 pay phones. That amounted to less than one-tenth of 1% of Mother Bell's revenues. The far greater cost is the incalculable loss of esteem in the eyes of people who wonder why they cannot make a call...
...General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration, whom Nixon selected to become the 55th Secretary of State and Keeper of the Great Seal of the United States. Over the years, Nixon has reserved his friendship for few men. With intimates like Finch, Mitchell and Rogers heading...
Mitchell was not universally popular in the Nixon entourage. He signed on later than some of the charter mem bers, and a few of the campaign aides found his no-nonsense attitude auto cratic. He stayed high in Nixon's esteem, however, and soon after the election the boss pegged him for Attorney General, refusing to take no for an answer. It will be Mitchell's task to make good on one of Nixon's most specific campaign pledges: to check the rising crime rate by improving law enforcement and related services. Mitchell's personal views...