Word: regardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such is the regard in which he is held in the Senate that he is continually nominated for key bipartisan jobs-flying around the world to inspect World War II battle points, skillfully presiding over the explosive, eight-week Senate investigation into Harry Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur, etc. Twice-in 1951 and 1953-the Senate Democratic leadership was offered him, and twice he gracefully declined. "I'm more concerned with my own thinking," he said, "than with the Democratic Party nationally...
...well; before we ate, we knew that wood had to be chopped for the stove"-but the glory of the Old South for such as the Russells was that poverty was no social handicap if the family stock was good and if the family showed the right kind of regard for Southern tradition...
...sternly guards his personal privacy, Dwight Eisenhower is remarkably candid on such personal matters as health and habits, which most Americans regard as nobody's business. Last week, asked in press conference by U.P. Newshen Pat Wiggins for presidential advice on how to give up smoking, Ike grinned and confessed: "Of course, I was a very heavy smoker, probably brought about through my life in the military and war, and all that I was asked to do was to be more moderate about it. No doctor ever told me I should stop. But for me it was easier...
...more significant was the effect of Kerala on the rest of India. Despite belated but increasing concern in New Delhi, most Indians seemed to regard Kerala's difficulties as mere growing pains. This suits the Indian Communist Party fine. Already in the state of Madras, and in Communist-oriented Andhra, teachers and laborers are demanding equal pay to that promised (but not yet delivered) to their counterparts in Kerala...
Yulo had the nomination in the bag. But the first major blow to his campaign was his failure to win the support of Manuel (Manny) Manahan, 41, a man with a magnetic touch in the barrios whom many Filipinos regard as a potential second Magsaysay (TIME, May 13). Manahan refused to unite his Progressives with Yulo's Liberals unless nominated for Vice President, and Yulo had already pledged the job to able, 46-year-old Diosdado Macapagal, who has the necessary political asset of having also been a close friend of Magsaysay, and though a member of the opposition...