Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African past, came to be viewed as a war of independence. Kenyatta himself, who had been denounced by a British colonial governor as "a leader to darkness and death," became as the ruler of his new nation a symbol of reconciliation without rancor. As a special mark of respect, the British government announced that Prince Charles would represent Queen Elizabeth II at Kenyatta's funeral this week...
...XXIII, had the warmth of a good pastor. In addition, almost all the Cardinals seemed to want a man who emblemized faith as well as hope and charity, one who, like Paul VI, had a deep concern for doctrine. Luciani fitted both bills. He was also ideal in another respect. The Cardinals are always uneasy at the prospect of a lengthy papacy?15 or more years?and the Patriarch of Venice is a 65-year-old who was sickly as a child and suffered a two-year siege of tuberculosis as a young...
...earnestly exhort the electors that they should not let themselves be guided by friendship or aversion, or be influenced by favor or respect toward anyone, or be forced by the intervention of persons in authority or by pressure groups...
Free from anxiety, he should be able to give positive guidance rather than prohibition in all the decisive questions affecting life and death, good and evil, including those matters where human sexuality is involved, He should not be a doctrinaire defender of ancient bastions, but rather-with all due respect for continuity in the church's life and teaching-he should be a pastoral pioneer of a renewed preaching and practice in the church...
...unfair. Again, those who spend a lot of time working have, inevitably, to cut themselves off from the community - thus appearing to express a dislike of the community. The community resents this (unless, which was emphatically not the case at this time, a tenet of the community is to respect the individual more than itself). Time spent on games, on the other hand, is by its nature communal. And although success in other fields is for the fame of the community, games success is more obvious, more dramatic and more frequent. Lastly, the public schools took a fairly high proportion...