Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crommelin got some hearty support. Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...teachers Jesse met, with their ramshackle schools and pitiful salaries, won his respect. There were old Ethel Henthorne who worked for years in her spare time to get a college degree and finally got it at 70; poor Ann Bush who was forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...
George Bluestone's "The Sewing Machine" commands the most respect. The characters are shrouded in pages of dialogue; at first they seem to exist as impersonal objects, not speaking but spoken about. Yet gradually they assume personalities, and fall into a pattern from which emerges a sympathetic story of disjointed family life...
...expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students are expected to show both within and without the university such respect for order, morality, personal honor, and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens...
...innings in all-before he let a run cross the plate. At week's end, the New York Giants managed to shell him out of the box, but it was the first time in his last seven starts. His record: w. 15, l. 6. Although everybody has tremendous respect for his curve and control, the secret of Newcombe's success is summed up simply in three words: he throws hard...