Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalled: "The President always heard me through with entire respect. Then he continued eating or smoking, without saying anything. After a few seconds of silence he cr I mentioned something else and the conversation veered in another direction...
...respect the National Association of Manufacturers, the Boy Scouts of America Inc., the Cambridge Platonists, and the moguls of the Harvard CRIMSON all concur...
...together and prevent that, some of what they say will perhaps be true. If we can prove we believe in our democracy as strongly as they do in their government, if we are willing to sacrifice as much as they are, they will respect every show of strength...
Editor Pope did not think the press would like what he proposed: "Thin-skinned people suffer a lot but they are prone to improve. . . . Your victims will respect you, and accord you whatever praise and gratitude you may earn...
...Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...