Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman clearly felt no such respect, even though the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to raise money and pay the nation's debts. The President's constitutional right to veto any bill was just as explicit. But his moral right to defy the will of the people's representatives twice in 32 days was a question that would arouse debate, and make Republican campaign fodder...
...attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry at last won them general respect...
...Children must be taught to respect the rights of others. Americans have the reputation of being the most inconsiderate folk on earth. Discourtesy is at once an evidence and a cause of immaturity...
...seemed to some of them oldfashioned: he loved virtue, in an unembarrassed and trusting fashion. Some smart undergraduates might misunderstand his generosity and think him gullible, but most of his pupils learned to admire and respect him for his unique combination of learning and innocence...
...they had five sessions together, and by the last one, had achieved a kind of wary mutual respect. Said Boswell in parting...