Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limmer ski boots, approaching in their field the status of Louisville Sluggers in baseball, have brought respect and renown to Peter and his boot-making family. The Limmer boots are definitely a family affair; his wife and two sons work along with him in the production of these eagerly-sought downhill delights. Working as a team, Peter, his wife, and his sons, Peter Jr. and Francis, yearly turn over 100 pairs of handmade ski boots, spending the rest of their working time on his equally famous one-piece walking shoes and climbing boots...
...editors of Signature have failed to realize that they are dealing not with literary productions, but with the crude, unshaped, often hollow, lumps of expression that come out of the undergraduate, or "afflatus," period in a writer's development. With absolute respect for the contributors to the current issue, I'm willing to bet that six out of the seven will soon be ashamed that these fragments were ever set in type. This writing has to be done, if these folks are ever going to be writers, but there is no law which states that it must be published...
Enough Japanese editors had read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
...countinghouse, complete acceptance of women in the fusty man-world of banking is a long way off. (Even the San Francisco newspapers could not quite accept them; they covered A.B.W.'s doings on the society pages.) Sighed one A.B.W.-delegate last week: "They're learning to respect us-but they still snicker behind our backs...
...Respect for the law runs in her family. Says she: "My mother did just about the same thing, but she got married before she went through with...