Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easiest villian to overlook is the citizen whose home or commercial establishment fronts on a street in the vicinity of the Square. Essentially, easy winter walking depends upon a good neighbor policy of shoveling sidewalks immediately after a snowfall. In chilly New England a quick job in this respect alone can prevent the formation of an icy coating which will remain until the thaw. But the simple civic act of shoveling itself does not come readily. It is a variation on the old theme of everyone talking about the weather but no one doing anything about it even when...
...They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
Thus admonished (and reassured), the delegates got off to a flying start. In two days they agreed on a six-point agenda, and approved an impressive armistice preamble in which they agreed to stop fighting, and to respect each other's territory. Then they settled down to tackle the prickly questions of armistice frontiers, withdrawals and reduction of their armies in the Negeb desert. To give the Egyptians a prod, the Israelis announced that they were already holding armistice talks with the Lebanese, and were giving up control of Lebanese villages across the border...
...some folksy characters. When Dailey's last fling (the coppermine gamble) almost gets the whole crew thrown into the street, the moral emerges: How can a man be a failure if he makes a lot of friends, wins the love of his wife and children and even the respect of his boarders...
...constitution increases this danger, Bender says. He adds that "the Council suffers at present from a considerable degree of indifference, misunderstanding or even open hostility from the student body, so that it does not command all the respect it should have. The policy of the CRIMSON has not been helpful in this respect...