Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantages of bringing this lovable American boy to Harvard are too numerous to mention. But more important, the self-respect of two million American citizens will be saved when Leo dons the Harvard "H." That's a lot of citizens, Mr. Bingham...
Togliatti's sinuous dialectic had been so smooth that it evoked chuckles and even admiration from his enemies. In the stunned galleries one old woman kept biting her lip and shaking her head in reluctant respect, mumbling: "He's a clever devil, he's a clever devil!" But a representative of the Vatican's Osservatore Romano gritted his teeth so hard that he lost a filling...
Playwright Deval's not unprecedented suggestion that moral values need not be the same for saints & sinners might have helped his play if it weren't so generally past helping. It is partly a mess because it hasn't a shred of self-respect. It trifles shamelessly with its material, trying to be dramatic one moment and comic the next. Worse still, it purveys some of its sex for leers...
...arrival of the atomic age has given the layman a profound respect for science, if any symbolic meaning can be attached to a recent incident on Quincy Street...
...cold February morning in 1946, a slender, bespectacled young man walked into the University of Texas registrar's office and applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a Houston mailman who had graduated from a small Southern college, was qualified in every respect but one: he was a Negro. He was the first who ever tried to enter the University. He was turned down flat...