Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The notable mark of Russian conduct here is that in no respect has it been tempered by the talks in Moscow. While Western officials feel bound these days to move warily on such issues as the currency crisis, lest the Moscow talks be prejudiced in the slightest way, the Russians plainly feel no such restraint...
Absent from the leave-taking was his commander, General Douglas MacArthur; they had said their farewells in private two days before. That was in keeping with their relationship during the last six years; it had always been on the basis of commander and subordinate, each with enormous respect for the other as a soldier...
Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
...Michael Millen is a slight, earnest 26-year-old. A Methodist preacher, he wears a clerical collar, partly because he considers himself a "high" Methodist, partly as a badge of authority which his boys respect. He inherited Landhaven's 60 acres in Maine from his father, a wealthy farmer and businessman in Coin, Iowa. Young Millen had planned a school built to his own specifications ever since his own unsatisfying prep-school days. After Harvard ('42), he got three other well-to-do Harvard-men so fired with his ideas that they agreed to take jobs as masters...
...times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room waiters and orders a sandwich and glass of milk from the cafeteria. Reporters like the way Garst seeks their judgment on a story's value (Garst: "How much space do you want to give it?"), respect the quick but never superficial reading he gives their copy, admire his calm in a news crisis. Said Star Reporter Meyer Berger last week: "A damn good executive...