Word: respect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are more concerned by the deal being discussed by Indiana Standard with Saudi Arabia. At the bargaining table sits swart, smiling Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 39, the Arab oil expert whom Americans most respect and fear. Head of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, Tariki is an oil engineer with a master's degree from the University of Texas, is divorced from his American wife. His dedicated Arab nationalism is reportedly deepened by painful memories of having been confused with Mexicans in Texas. In the land of sheiks with Cadillacs and concubines, he is regarded as personally...
...United States seriously expects to claim the world's respect for any other reason than material wealth and brute strength, it cannot lose the capacity for unmitigated self-criticism...
...Cincinnati (who still defends a first vote for Franklin Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee), he won the respect of lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department for his solid, keenly reasoned opinions, showed a flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been whisked before a judge late at night, convicted of rape on the basis...
...best brains in the church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
...been nine days since forty sticks of dynamite ripped an 18 foot square hole in the rear of the only Reform Jewish temple in Atlanta, Georgia. Damage in dollars is estimated at $200,000; damage in respect for law and order is inestimable...