Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urge to kill." What's next for the boys? Years in jail, probably. Meantime, the Army will draft many other boys who have only a horror of killing; why not make boys like Ray Edwards and Marty Daniels professional soldiers? In the Army, they would have the respect of society instead of its condemnation...
...larger questions of war and peace, Congressmen still seem to hold Dwight Eisenhower, and his foreign-policy successes, in awe. But where they were cautious about opposing him during the first Administration, they now feel cocky in the belief that his preoccupation with international affairs and deep respect for Congress' independent role leave them free to cut Administration domestic programs as they see fit. Ike's ballooning sentences at press conferences, his occasional vaguenesses on the specifics of current Administration policy, e.g., disarmament, China trade policy, civil rights, give the President's foes new cheek...
Outmaneuvered, the organization leaders accepted Almond rather than a factional fight. Reason: a healthy respect for Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, the Republican national committeeman who four years ago threw the fear of G.O.P. into the Byrd organization by winning an unprecedented 45% of the vote against Governor Stanley...
...achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam and had a great respect for Mohammed...
...founder's credo. The main purpose of the university's schools-Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering and Agriculture-is to teach Western techniques to be used within the framework of Arab culture. "The students," says one psychologist, "can't help but respect the United States more, because we give them the freedom to disagree...