Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments of war, the combat infantryman's feet and stomach. There is no excuse, he holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit to the company mess...
...Chinese people generally are tolerant with regard to the Communist question. The Government's policy to employ political means to secure a peaceful settlement has been consistent. The policy will eventually succeed because it is in line with the good sense of the people." There will be no civil war in China, the Generalissimo added, so long as he is that nation's leader...
...could not evaluate accurately the aspects of this select world," reflects Sonia, "whether the personal connection of these people with the immortals, or their poised arrogance in regard to such issues as the contemptible political machine in Boston, or their stylish language, or their blue-blooded ugliness was the more impressive. ... It was not, I concluded, that what they said and the judgments they passed were [profound] . . . but that the manner of these pilgrims' heirs was so fearless and direct that one was not struck with their fatuity...
...whole. In the past, almost without exception, the world economy has never been operated; rather it has been operated on by nations in the process of trying to improve their individual economies-a procedure as shortsighted as the long-outdated notion that a company can be operated without regard to the welfare of its customers or its suppliers...
...towards taxes, when they had known only heavy ones, or toward the national debt (at $230 billion), when they could hardly remember that economists had quaked when it first reached $50 billion? What would be the attitude toward foreign trade and investment of a man who had come to regard the Delhi-Cairo, Dakar, Brazil-Miami run as a glorified ride to the suburbs...