Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their turn, Republicans glowered. Colorado Senator Eugene D. Millikin, floor manager for the bill, had proclaimed the G.O.P. position during the debate. He had called the President's action a "foolish veto" prompted by "sheer ignorance or sheer demagoguery." Other Presidents, Millikin had said, had "a decent respect for the right of Congress to control fiscal policy...
...taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
...knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into self-respect...
...land of violent opinions, quiet Judah Magnes has won the respect of Jews, the British, and Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World...
...some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked hard but were not acquisitive enough, says Paul, to kill themselves at it. Even the town loafers, apparently a numerous caste, he remembers with respect for their placid bearing while their wives took in washing to support the family. But they were true to their natures, and so, it seems, was everyone else in Linden, even to the point of eccentricity...