Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teacher's Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
...attempts; schools of medicine and engineering were added, admission and teaching requirements were set up, class attendance became obligatory. But al-Azhar remained engulfed in the past. As World War II, the Palestine war, and revolution forced Egypt toward the modern era, al-Azhar began to lose its universal respect...
This leaves fielding as the varsity's one major uncertain quantity. Third base is a particularly grave problem in this respect, and none of the other positions (with the possible exception of secondbase and catcher) are manned by notably sure-fingered players...
There may never be a military pact as such Nehru said as much in a speech the other day, citing India's policy of nonalignment as the force which kept India from "drifting" and losing her self-respect. Nehru has always been reluctant to give up the Ghandian ideal of non-violence and non-militarism, and to obligate India to fight for another nation would be an admission of the final defeat of this ideal...
...fact that both India and Pakistan are admitting that differences have mellowed will ease American foreign policy problems in the Near East. Nixon's proposals for aid are indicative of the new respect India is gaining in American eyes as a bastion of freedom, "the battleground of democracy" as he phrased it. Ideally, India would become a little more like Pakistan in its resolute anticommunism and Pakistan more like India in its democracy--thereby ending the triangle of suspicion which has existed between these two powers and the United States...