Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headmaster and teacher, Hugh Diman preferred respect to love; he once complained of a picture that it did not make him look strict enough. He was kindly to his boys, but rarely familiar; at his most informal, he would give them friendly pokes in the ribs with his walking stick. Few "Mr. Chips" stories were told about him. More often the boys talked about his bad driving (he permanently scarred a driveway maple tree at St. George's) or his absentmindedness...
California Democrats had been cautioned by Attorney General Bob Kenny to treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
...hour of supreme gravity" (three weeks before elections), the Pope last week told 40,000 women jammed in St. Peter's basilica that it was not only their right, but their duty to vote only for candidates offering "sure guarantees that they will respect the rights of God and of religion...
...small parish on the capital's outskirts the pastor told his flock: "Article 66 [of the electoral laws] forbids priests carrying on political propaganda in church. I respect this law. But no one can prevent me from reminding you that crucified Christ had two thieves at his side . . . the greater sinner was the one on the left...
...agnostic who binds himself to the Ten Commandments, Essayist Orwell at 43 has attained an impressive position in British critical writing. A most skillful political pamphleteer (Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4),* he has won wide respect by not paying a cent of tribute to friends or foes of any party...