Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet. The statement, he said, impugned the integrity of the Senate. Under the rules, Taylor must sit down. He did, and the filibuster was broken. At long last, the bill went to conference, where Senate leaders sternly hammered out a law which met military requirements in almost every respect...
Courage. For setting these fires in the land, Evangelistas do not blame all Catholics. They regard Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez as a peaceful man with respect for the rights of minorities. But Archbishop José Garibi Rivera of Guadalajara makes no secret of his militant anti-Protestantism, and many a parish priest follows his lead. Said Evangelista Ruesga last week: "It has always taken courage to be an Evangelista in Mexico; right now, for the first time, I am scared...
...highest point of civilization, from which we have been steadily retrogressing ever since." Together with some mildly romantic young folk, Mrs. Brocken and her brother-in-law manage to live in pleasant decorum, with each member of the household sensible enough to mind his own business and respect the others' peculiarities...
...Congress was no longer listening to General Marshall with its old respect. Said Colorado's Eugene Milliken, "He's gotten into the habit of delivering ultimatums to Congress. He takes the same attitude toward Congress as he would to a striker who fails to put the proper polish on his boots...
...Lyons fails to make the only living ex-President of the U.S. "warm, whimsical" or very human. He has even desperately collected specimens of Hoover's "humor." Readers will gain new respect for Hoover's intelligence, stubborn integrity and devotion to public welfare, but in Lyons' pages he remains an unbending, inaccessible man in a stiff collar, a man peculiarly unfitted for the cutthroat rough & tumble of political life...