Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those who desire to lead people, whether for power or in the highest of good will, to know, love, fear, respect, or even to imagine, what human beings...
...Where Is Your Respect?" The man who leveled this blast was no third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...
...wrote Roberts, are pretty small: ¶"In 1946, an expedition recruited by the U.S. Army . . . was on the point of sailing from Boston under U.S. Navy escort to carry out scientific experiments on Canada's Melville Island, without so much as by-your-leave. Where is your respect for the sovereignty of others. . . ?" ¶"[Your] Office of War Transportation in Washington banned shipment of American coal into Canada . . . in a dispute over unreturned freight cars. ... [It was] a picayune incident which reflects a state of mind...
...America Conference, which in one year has gained the respect though not the recognition of its rival 26-year-old National Football League, Brown's amateur-professional Browns* last season won 12 out of 14 games. This week they edged out the Chicago Rockets, 31-28, have...
...Billy is as assured as ever: "I approach this medium with a lot of respect. I know it's difficult. But don't forget I'm not trying to get laughs. I'm not nervous. And anyway I'm pretty good in the ducking department." On the air, he sings a more modest tune: "It wouldn't surprise me if this program wound up owing Hooper ten points...