Word: regardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, F.D.R. wrote: "In some way I was a number of years ago given credit for getting a scoop from President Eliot in regard to the way he was going to vote in the autumn of 1900. The real man who got that scoop was Albert W. DeRoode, now a lawyer in New York City, and he should have the credit...
What these people chiefly disliked about Roosevelt is that he did want to change things, and many of them found reason to scorn him. "His smart friends tended to regard him as overmuch of an intellectual," according to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "and the girls of his own set called him 'the featherduster' because of supposedly shallow and priggish qualities...
Smith has stated, however, that he is "entirely neutral in regard to the candidates for the HYRC presidency...
...gathered at Naha's city hall and voted the mayor out of office by a 16-to-10 vote, hundreds of Okinawans stood outside and jeered at them: "Are you Okinawans or prostitutes?" U.S. civilian administrators privately criticized Moore's action as another example of what they regard as highhanded military practices...
...These graduate students," states Shaplin, "have a hypercritical attitude towards school. Most of them have gone through pretty rigorous educational competition, and they want to avoid this for their kids. There is a terrifically protective atmosphere in this regard, for they want their children to go to nothing but the best...