Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor but the Commissioner of Administration and Finance who ordered all Massachusetts state (not national) flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days. Through a telephone call to the United Press in Boston I have learned that the Commissioner issued this order to show respect to the late Pope Pius...
...Dispossessed. In one respect Algeria did, in fact, become part of France. When France lost Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871, tens of thousands of Alsatians who were unwilling to become German citizens settled in Algeria. They were followed over the years by a steady trickle of impoverished French and Corsican peasants and by the dispossessed of Spain, Italy and Malta. Today, one Algerian in ten-some 1,060,000 people-is of European ancestry, though perhaps only a third of those who call themselves French are, in fact, of French descent...
Something Borrowed. The Cabinet over which Abbas presides-he is heard with respect but has no decisive voice-is made up of two loose factions. One, which includes Abbas himself, favors some kind of continuing tie with France, in common with the neighboring Moslem states of Morocco and Tunisia. The other group, made up of men intrigued by the dream of Pan-Arabism, favors more extreme measures in fighting the French...
...first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake. Retorted Bing: "My congratulations and greatest respect to Mr. Adler for his daring to introduce these operas to empty houses...
Mace, unlike many Americans who have worked in private industry, has a great deal of respect for the officers who staff the U.S. military agencies: "They are competent, dedicated men who work for less money than they would receive in private business, and we're lucky to have them. The same goes for the faculties of business schools...