Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efficiency of the device," he went on to say, "limits the range of action of the robot. Nevertheless, it has the great advantage of avoiding the use of machinery, and in that respect it functions like a rocket although it takes the air required for combustion from the outside...
...Judgment." The almost identical statements did not whitewash Kimmel and Short, both of whom had been charged with dereliction of duty in the earlier Roberts report (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942). In a calmer atmosphere, the Secretaries now found Kimmel and Short merely guilty of "errors of judgment." In one respect the Secretaries went farther than the Roberts report. They spread an indictment for bad judgment over "[naval] officers both at Pearl Harbor and at Washington," as well as other "officers in the field and in the War Department." (No names were mentioned...
...State Department had a man who had a powerful resolution to do well. Ed Stettinius is not only friendly, energetic and loyal, but he has still another valuable trait, which was rooted in the days when he had wanted to become a parson. It was a solemn, almost reverential, respect for the responsibility of his new high office. Besides this he has one enormous asset: the general good will of the people of the U.S., who are most anxious for him to succeed, and are willing to give him every support...
...With two years of high school, the average Jap soldier is as well educated as the average G.I. and in at least one respect a lot better. Almost half of all Jap soldiers have studied English; almost one-fourth of them can speak English "efficiently...
...inventive and cunning, he can penetrate any kind of terrain. As a fighter he as probably the equal of the U.S. soldier in every respect except one: initiative...