Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect and admire Dr. Bunche, and hope he is elected to the Board," Larsen commented. "His contributions to the United Nations have been outstanding, and I am sure his work for Harvard would be just as significant...
...Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary thrombosis. They do not get it until 50-odd. Men get it in the 30s." "I shall not pursue the point," pursued Randolph. "I did desire to know the malady from which she suffered." "Well," said Dr. White, "she may have had cancer. Or some mental disorder...
...result has been that even when Dave Beck made what appears to have been a genuine effort to clean things up when he came in, he ran into such opposition from the locals that, by 1954, he had to abandon the attempt at reform and winning employer's respect through controlling an honest union. But he succeeded, nevertheless in gaining a sort of grudging admiration even from those employers with whom he drove the hardest bargain, admiration which has been increased along the same lines by Hoffa. Admitting that his contracts are so favorable to the unions...
...vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery and most productive political journey...
...would force such minority religious groups as Seventh-day Adventists (400 in Utah) "to work on their own Sabbath day" (Saturday) or else be limited to a five-day business week. Pleaded George Clyde to his fellow Mormons: "The true democratic process rests as much on the principle of respect for the fundamental rights of minorities as on that of majority rule...