Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Respect. At his press conference in Washington earlier in the week, Secretary of State Dulles had noted defensively that Soviet propaganda was having "a kind of field day" over Russia's unilateral suspension of nuclear tests, especially in newly independent countries that "haven't had the opportunity to become mature in these matters." From British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell-"Stop the nuclear tests and start the talks"-to Canada's Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker-"My hope is that the free world will discontinue the tests"-many maturer folk were flipflopping too. But Gromyko...
...level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful Asians that Russia has a deep respect for U.S. striking power...
...jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture he managed to achieve a success in that "graveyard of future Prime Ministers...
...considerable cost to their own self-respect, the Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and Red China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament...
John Eyre's academic experience has been a mixed one. "I have great respect for the field of English, perhaps less so for the department. I threatened to resign from the university and go to Oxford when they reneged on permission to write a thesis." He changed his mind about doing honors but wrote a thesis anyway on Anglo-Saxon poetry, a taste he acquired at Oxford, where such matters are encouraged to the point of compulsion...