Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With respect to other groups, however, H.U.E.H.A.'s record is more in doubt. Mechanics earn $1.50 an hour, admittedly less than outside workers in the same classification, but they have a guarantee of year-round work...
...father's English parsonage and at strict Westminster School, Christopher Windley Lonsdale "was brought up to respect a hickory stick. He thinks it did him good. When he emigrated to western Canada as a young man, he was appalled at the way sassy schoolboys talked to their elders. Since western Canada had no private schools to turn out little gentlemen, Lonsdale started...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...
...settlements concerning the game called for house troupe leaders who are "over 21 or Harvard students." No director would consider this patronizing. It is a recognized fact that the Harvard student is ahead of his age in leadership and responsibility, and for this reason he can command the respect of toughies and professional settlement workers alike. Brooks House President Charles J. Lipton '48 guesses that more than half of the volunteer workers in the average settlement house are Harvard...
...fresh in from the streets. But not, according to Brooks, "if he is a man who is too typically Harvard, complete with accent and fastidious dress. He must be able to speak their language, and above all, he must have a little athletic prowess, because those kids like to respect you as a strong...